“I believe that this year there will be no big New Year holidays, at least in our city,” - RIA Novosti quotes Bashketova as saying on the air of the 78 TV channel.

According to her, now in Russia it is not the second wave, but the continuation of the epidemic process, which is now building up in all ARVIs in the autumn-winter period.

She noted that now mostly young able-bodied people are sick.

Earlier, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova said on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel that every tenth Russian does not believe in the existence of coronavirus.