Nikolay Kryuchkov, immunologist, candidate of medical sciences, managing director of the KEG contract research company, said there is a hidden wave of COVID-19 cases in Russia as people with SARS symptoms are not tested for infection. Statistics. It has been reported URA.RU.
He emphasized that with the symptoms of SARS, people began to think less of them as symptoms of the coronavirus, so they did not test.
The immunologist emphasized that a person with this condition can contract COVID-19, a hidden wave of spread of the infection.
“Last year it was in December, January and all February. Slow growth really does not reflect anything, because only a small percentage of cases are laboratory-confirmed. Contempt has increased,” said Kryuchkov.
According to him, until the end of February it will be possible to observe peak values of the incidence of coronavirus in Russia, in March the level will be of some value, after which it will begin to decline moderately.
Former chief infectious disease specialist in Moscow, virologist Nikolai Malyshev declarationThat in 2024, coronavirus infection will become a seasonal disease.