“Of course, the epidemic will end and the pandemic itself will go into the format of a seasonal disease, the new coronavirus itself will continue to circulate in the human population, but like a classic seasonal influenza virus,” RIA Novosti quoted him on the air of Channel One.
According to him, this can happen if 50-60% of the world's population becomes immune to infection.
Earlier in the "Vector" noted that so far there is no confirmed data on the possibility of re-infection with coronavirus.
At the same time, the head of the Russian Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko, called for treatment from the onset of the first symptoms of coronavirus.