She stated that “today it is obvious that the countries where there were no systems of resistance, sanitary and epidemiological services at all were the most affected, they were destroyed at one time, when it seemed that vaccines against known infections and antibiotics would allow us to cope with any infectious threat. "

“However, no.

And today we see that the situation in the Russian Federation is more stable, more understandable and more manageable, "TASS quotes Popova.

According to data as of August 17, 20,958 cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Russia during the day.

In total, 6,642,559 cases of COVID-19 have been registered in Russia since the beginning of the pandemic.

Director of the Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Gamaleya Alexander Gintsburg, in an interview with the NSN, told how herd immunity is formed.