Virologist Zhemchugov: an increase in the incidence of COVID-19 is not expected in Russia after the holidays

"No, it can not be.

Frost on the street, people are celebrating, no one will get infected, vacations in schools, universities.

Many people flew abroad.

I do not expect the incidence to rise.

Now those who have not been vaccinated or have been ill for a long time are getting sick, ”TASS quotes Zhemchugov.

He also expressed hope that the coronavirus pandemic will end within 2022. 

Earlier, the director of the Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Alexander Gunzburg, said that the coronavirus pandemic would end if 70% of the population were vaccinated within six months.