He spoke about this in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
“The low proportion of age-related patients in our hospitals is more likely a consequence of timely measures taken to limit contacts, which our pensioners perform much more disciplined than young people. In Italy, they were frankly late with isolation, ”said Semenov.
According to him, Italians are “very sociable,” and they have been swaying for too long with the introduction of quarantine measures.
He emphasized that if in most patients aged 18–40 years the disease goes well, then in 80-year-olds it is very dangerous.
Earlier it became known that 5642 cases of coronavirus infection were registered in Russia per day, more than 45% of them without symptoms. The total number of infected reached 52 763.