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Golikova will report to Putin and Mishustin about the ideas of virologists on COVID-19

4/24/2020, 7:58:19 PM

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova will report to President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on the ideas of virologists regarding a possible extension of coronavirus measures in the country.


“At the end of the meeting with Anna Yuryevna (Popova, head of Rospotrebnadzor. - RT ), we will report to the President and the Prime Minister about your thoughts, suggestions, comments on the strategy of restrictive measures and on a strategy to get out of these restrictive measures,” she said at a meeting with leading epidemiologists and virologists. Her words are quoted by RIA Novosti.

Previously, Deputy Director of the Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. Pasteur Alexander Semenov said that the exit from the regime of self-isolation in Russia should be phased.

The head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova noted that severe restrictions due to coronavirus infection should remain in Russia for at least another incubation period.