“The World Health Organization focuses on 95 percent coverage of the population, this is a figure that guarantees the invulnerability of society to infection,” the Parliamentary newspaper quotes Nikolai Briko, chief freelance epidemiologist of the Russian Ministry of Health.
According to him, in the case of an infection that spreads by airborne droplets, the only way to stop the epidemic is vaccination.
He also added that one cannot hope that immunity to coronavirus will arise naturally.
Previously, the director of the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after N.F. Gamalei Alexander Gunzburg said coronavirus vaccine production could begin by the end of summer.