“It is quite possible scenario without an explosive peak. Over the past five days, the increase in the disease is mainly associated with the number of people tested, which is confirmed by the fact that the number of hospitalized people is not growing, ”he said.
Alexander Chepurnov, a leading researcher at the Institute of Clinical Experimental Medicine, professor of virology, noted that the measures taken could help Russia avoid a sharp increase in the number of patients at the first stage of the epidemic.
“I would agree that there was some kind of stabilization caused by the way the population treated self-isolation in the first week after its announcement,” he said.
According to him, this week played a "stopping role."
The head of the department of interferons and the laboratory of interferonogenesis at the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Gamalei, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Felix Ershov assessed the situation with the regime of self-isolation.
In an interview with the NSN, he noted that it is not worth immediately getting out of the restrictions, you need to take into account the specifics of Russia - its territory, different population density.
According to the expert, in all respects the capital should be an example of the fight against COVID-19.
The Chief Pulmonologist of the Russian Ministry of Health, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergey Avdeev, said that the country is still far from reaching a plateau in the incidence of coronavirus infection COVID-19.