Sobyanin linked COVID-19 among vaccinated people to the delta strain of coronavirus

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that cases of COVID-19 among those who have had the coronavirus infection or been vaccinated are associated with the delta variant of the coronavirus.

"The level of immunity to protect oneself from the 'Indian' strain needs to be twice as high as the 'Wuhan' strain. That is why we see repeated illnesses, we see illnesses in those who have been vaccinated," Sobyanin said on the air of the Rossiya 1 TV channel (quoted by Interfax).

On June 18, Sobyanin said that 89% of Muscovites who contracted COVID-19 had the delta strain.

• On June 6, Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko reported that less than 0.8% of people who were vaccinated against coronavirus fell ill with COVID-19. The minister did not give exact numbers, but it is more than 100 thousand people.
• The aggregator gogov.ru, which collects data on vaccination in Russia, reports that as of June 20, 15.4 million people in the country have received both components of the vaccine, and 19.6 million have received one component.