TASS reports.

“We hope that it will be two or three weeks, maybe (when) some growth will continue, then there will be a gradual stabilization,” he said.

At the same time, Chulanov added that it is difficult to accurately predict the timing of the increase in the incidence, since the country "for the first time entered the epidemic season of the rise of SARS."

Earlier, Natalya Pshenichnaya, deputy director for clinical and analytical work of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor, said that Russia may be approaching a peak in the number of new cases of coronavirus infection detected per day.

She also gave a forecast for the peak values ​​of COVID-19 in Russia.

On October 18, Honored Doctor of Russia Alexander Karabinenko spoke about how to protect yourself from COVID-19 coronavirus infection in winter.

On October 19, it became known that scientists from the United States found a "vulnerability" in coronaviruses.