The Russian authorities can completely abandon the restrictive measures introduced due to the spread of coronavirus infection COVID-19, not earlier than in 2021. Such an assumption was broadcast by the Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko on Channel One.

“I think that it will be possible to calm down, given that a pharmaceutically controlled situation should appear. I think that we still need to talk about the next year ... It seems to me that this is February, ”Murashko said.

He also noted that the presence of immunity to infection in more than 45% of the population, and preferably in about 50-60%, is guaranteed to interrupt its distribution chain. The minister also called for wearing masks both on the street and in the room for the prevention of infection with COVID-19.

Also, according to the head of the Ministry of Health, there is no asymptomatic coronavirus infection, but the symptoms may not coincide with respiratory diseases. Murashko also said when the clinical trials of the vaccine created at the N.F. National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology should begin. Gamalei.

“Permission for clinical trials has been issued. Issued by employees of the Ministry of Health, the ethics committee agreed. We should start tomorrow, ”he said.

In turn, the director of the center, Alexander Gunzburg, stressed that testing the drug will take about a month and a half. According to him, the vaccine will be administered to the subjects twice - on day zero and on the 21st day of the study.

“After that, the documents go back to the Ministry of Health and the relevant experts of the Ministry of Health evaluate the benefits in relation to risk, and only after that the drug can count on it to see the light, that is, will go into civilian traffic,” the specialist emphasized.

Earlier, the Ministry of Defense announced the completion of preparations for conducting clinical trials of a vaccine from COVID-19, jointly developed by specialists of the defense department and the N.F. National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Gamalei. It was indicated that in the coming days the two-week isolation of the first group of volunteers will end, after which they will be vaccinated.

According to the latest data, in Russia the total number of detected cases of coronavirus infection has reached 545,458, of which 8248 over the last 24 hours. However, 294,306 patients have recovered all the time, 7,284 have died.

At the same time, more than 15.3 million tests for COVID-19 have already been conducted in the country. Under medical supervision are 316 thousand people.

Also on russian.rt.com RT map: distribution of COVID-19 cases by regions of Russia

Opening of the summer veranda season

On Tuesday, June 16, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin opened the season of summer verandas in the capital and held a meeting with representatives of the catering industry.

“The most familiar in our Moscow life is restaurants and open cafes, verandas. When you return to this life, it is already somehow unusual, even some shock. I hope that for a long time we got rid of those restrictions in which we lived, ”the mayor said.

Sobyanin expressed confidence that next week, as planned, all food service outlets would be open.

“After the cancellation of the passes, seven to eight days passed, we approved the opening of public catering, summer verandas. Now, by the way we are going, I have confidence that on Monday we will have a normal picture, and we will confirm the decision to open restaurants in the stationary version, so it’s time to really prepare for the opening, ”the mayor added.

According to the head of the department of Rospotrebnadzor in Moscow, the chief sanitary doctor of the capital, Elena Andreeva, all city catering enterprises were given recommendations on organizing work in the new conditions. She noted that visitors after three months of self-isolation would be “mentally different.”

“They will want tables with disinfectants to be wiped in front of them, gloves and masks should be put on so that waiters are masked,” Andreeva said.

Recall, on June 16, the next stage began in overcoming the restrictive measures introduced in Moscow due to the coronavirus pandemic. From today, the summer verandas of cafes and restaurants, museums, exhibitions, a zoo have resumed their work in the capital, they have begun to provide planned dental care, libraries and rental services have opened.

Starting June 23, Moscow should start operating cafes and restaurants in full, and restrictions on the operation of fitness centers and swimming pools should be lifted.

Meanwhile, the ban on mass events remains in the capital of Russia. Theaters and cinemas are also still closed. However, as Sergei Sobyanin stated, the remaining restrictive measures will be lifted no earlier than mid-July.

“These are two months of the transition period, and we are looking to ensure that nothing breaks out with us,” the mayor of Moscow stated.