“Now South American countries, part of the South American continent and the Southern Hemisphere are taking over the leadership intensively ... Russia is in seventh place in terms of the intensity of the epidemiological process,” TASS quoted him as saying.
He noted that currently, in terms of the intensity of the epidemic, Peru is in first place, overtaking even the United States.
Moreover, according to Onishchenko, the United States leads in the absolute number of cases, and Russia is in third place.
The academician made a corresponding statement during his speech at the Russian-Belarusian conference “Coronavirus infection: fundamental, clinical and epidemiological aspects. Socio-economic challenges to health care. ”
Earlier, academician of the RAS Yuri Belenkov, director of the hospital therapy clinic named after Ostroumov, in an interview with kp.ru commented on the need to maintain the mask regimen.