“Any mistake at any of these stages can return us to the point from which we began our movement through these stages. It’s absolutely certain that if we do not convince the citizens, we will not persuade them to comply with all the requirements and all the restrictions - at each stage, we will return to where we started, ”she said.

Popova did not rule out that perhaps she would have to take “again tough measures to limit interaction,” TASS reports.

Earlier, the head of Rospotrebnadzor said that severe restrictions due to coronavirus infection should remain in Russia for at least another incubation period.

Deputy Director of the Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology Pasteur Alexander Semenov recommended working out a phased exit from self-isolation.