“Today it is not possible to completely complete the circulation of the virus, no matter how closed the country is,” TASS quoted Popov as saying.
She noted that all the same, "there is some kind of communication, and there are risks of renewal, even if there are no viruses left in the country."
Previously, Popova stated that "restrictions can be lifted to assess the epidemic situation."
On May 3, Director General of the Federal State Budgetary Institution Scientific Research Center for Cardiology of the Ministry of Health of Russia, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergey Boytsov, speaking about the rate of increase in the number of cases of coronavirus COVID-19 infection, noted that the main reason was an increase in the number of PCR tests.