According to her, in early March, the agency collected data and tested the doctors who accompanied the Sapsan train, as, presumably, they talked a lot with potentially infected people.
It turned out that only 3% of them have immunity to the new coronavirus.
“And today’s study, which we will do, and in general in the population, but first of all, if we have a test system for immunoassay analysis, we will determine whether or not antibodies are present in doctors, in medical workers, and they are at the forefront,” - said Popova on the air of the channel "Russia 24".
Earlier, the head of the Center for Virology and Biotechnology "Vector" Rinat Maksyutov said that the epidemic of coronavirus infection can go into the category of seasonal diseases if half the population develops immunity due to the infection or vaccination. Also in the "Vector" noted that there is no confirmed data on the possibility of re-infection with coronavirus.
Irina Shilkina, the chief freelance infectious disease specialist of the Moscow Region Ministry of Health, estimated the probability of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.