“The antidote to the pandemic is national unity and global solidarity,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Along with this, he expressed the opinion that in the fight against coronavirus now, mankind must work hard to prepare for the next pandemic.

“History will judge us not only by whether we have overcome the pandemic or not, but also by the lessons that we will learn and the steps that we will take after it is completed,” he pointed out.

In his opinion, at the moment there is an opportunity to lay the foundations for more flexible healthcare systems in the world.

On March 11, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a pandemic. 

The senior researcher at the Russian Scientific and Methodological Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS, epidemiologist Oleg Yurin, in an interview with NSN, assessed the situation with the spread of coronavirus.