“Today, we still feel the severity and burden of this infection, so I ask you to take certain precautions these days.

Take care of your health, your loved ones, especially the older generation, ”RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

Murashko noted the importance of creating a "certain time period" in order to wait for the start of mass vaccination against COVID-19 with "the least loss of health".

Earlier, State Duma Deputy Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, scientist-epidemiologist Gennady Onishchenko, in an interview with FAN, commented on reports that a person who has recovered from COVID-19 can excrete the virus for 90 days.