MOSCOW, October 5. /TASS/. More than 42 million people in Russia have been completely vaccinated against the novel coronavirus infection, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova said on Tuesday.

"As of today, 47.4 million people have received the first shot of a vaccine and 42.2 million have received both shots. As many as 1.9 million people have been either re-vaccinated or vaccinated after the disease," she said, adding that more people need to be vaccinated to reach herd immunity.

"Some 35.9 million people need to be inoculated with the first vaccine component and 7.6 million people who recovered from COVID or were vaccinated against it more than six months ago need to be re-vaccinated in order to reach the herd immunity target," she explained.

According to the latest statistics, around 235.5 million people have been infected worldwide and more than 4.8 million deaths have been reported.

To date, 7,637,427 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Russia, with 6,759,059 patients having recovered from the disease. Russia’s latest data indicates 211,696 fatalities nationwide. The Russian government set up an Internet hotline to keep the public updated on the coronavirus situation.