“In my opinion, a second lockdown can be introduced in the event of a highly pathogenic strain with a high lethality.
But the likelihood of the appearance of such a strain is small.
A lockdown may be introduced if a new coronavirus infection can affect the body in conjunction with another infection.
Then it will be called a mixed infection, ”he explained in a comment to URA.RU.
The interlocutor of the publication noted that in this case the course of the disease will be much more severe than with infections that circulate during the current epidemic season.
Another specialist called lockdown an effective measure to combat epidemics.
According to him, after its introduction in the countries, a sharp decrease in the incidence was recorded.
“We had a short down.
What happened in Spain, in France, was not even close.
It was necessary to introduce it in the second half of October, at the beginning of November last year.
Then we would not have received such excess mortality, ”said Nikolai Kryuchkov, an immunologist, Ph.D.
In Russia, over the past day, 29,362 new cases of coronavirus were detected, of which the largest number was in Moscow (6001) and St. Petersburg (2717).
During this time, 968 patients have died - this is a new daily anti-COVID-19 mortality record in the country since the beginning of the pandemic.