Russian virologist, principal investigator of the eponymous National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology. Gamaleya in conversation with Anatoly Altshtein TASS He stated that the COVID-19 epidemic is showing a trend towards the end, but the risk of the emergence of any new variant of the virus should still not be ignored.
“The epidemic tends to end,” said the scientist.
According to him, there is a significant decrease in morbidity and mortality all over the world.
Altstein explained that the increase in new coronavirus cases in the Russian Federation and around the world is now small and the overall situation has reached a plateau. He also warned citizens not to be afraid and not to panic.
“On February 20, the increase in cases stopped, at a plateau at this level. <…> Mortality is also low. That’s why nothing terrible is happening in the country,” he said.
The incidence of COVID-19 was previously reported in Russia in February. grew up It more than doubled from January, but death rates were the lowest since March 2020. But Anna Popova, head of Rospotrebnadzor statedIt is too early to say anything about the end of the coronavirus pandemic.