“The strong release of adrenaline and specific enzymes that stimulate immunity, which occurs during immersion in ice water, in no way allow the virus to penetrate.
A sharp surge in immunity kills various viruses and bacteria at the root.
And in the cold, the virus is transmitted much less often.
This reduces, in principle, almost to zero the chance to get infected, "- RIA Novosti quoted Timakov.
He noted that "there is also no risk of getting sick through water, since water is not a source of infection."
Earlier, State Duma deputy, former chief sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko, in an interview with kp.ru, talked about precautions when bathing on Epiphany.
In addition, Evgeny Zinoviev, a professor at the Janelidze Research Institute of Emergency Medicine in St. Petersburg, recommended that townspeople who have suffered coronavirus refrain from swimming in the ice hole for Epiphany.