Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences called the condition for the decline of the coronavirus pandemic

"The pandemic will decline, when 70-80% of the population will have immune protection from coronaviruses," he said in an interview with MK.

According to the academician, at present coronavirus is delivered by healthy carriers that act as a natural vaccine and contribute to the acquisition of collective immunity.

“On the one hand, it would seem good, but on the other it is very dangerous, because carriers infect both old and chronically ill people, and these people cannot withstand such a viral load,” said Ershov.

He emphasized that the “truth of the spread of coronavirus” will be clarified by the results of antibody testing in both ill and healthy citizens.

Earlier, the head of the Russian Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko, expressed hope that the COVID-19 epidemic would decline in the country by summer.

Chief Researcher, N.F. Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology Gamalei virologist Viktor Zuev in an interview with Nation News assessed the prognosis for the end of the coronavirus epidemic COVID-19 in Russia.