“We hope so (the COVID-19 pandemic will end. -

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),” TASS cites her answer to a question about the prospects for the development of the situation with the coronavirus.

Popova added that Rospotrebnadzor is counting on the end of the pandemic, but not on the complete disappearance of COVID-19.

“The virus will remain, it is, it is present today.

And today, some of those who see and hear us have friends and relatives who are sick.

Therefore, to say that the virus will go away is not, ”added the head of the service.

Popova called it "obvious" that the coronavirus will remain in Russia "for a long time, if not forever."

Earlier, FAN, citing a statement from Rospotrebnadzor, announced the abolition of all anti-COVID restrictions in children's camps in Russia.