"One can speak of the end of the pandemic with extreme caution," RIA Novosti Semyonov quotes.
According to him, while maintaining the current, "very low" rates of vaccination around the world, the fight against the coronavirus pandemic will continue in 2022.
The specialist stressed that the pandemic could end much faster if the vaccination process in the world is accelerated.
He noted that "it takes two to three years to complete the pandemic process, and this depends primarily on the rate of herd immunity formation."
Earlier, the director of the Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Gamaleya Alexander Gintsburg told how herd immunity is formed.