“According to our forecasts, around mid-April, we can again return to the same number of cases as now,” he said in a comment to RIA Novosti.
As an example, the expert cited the situation in St. Petersburg, where white nights will begin in July and tourists will begin to show more interest in the city.
“If by that time a new subspecies of the strain arrives, and someone brings it to us, intensive mixing can give rise to another wave,” the mathematician noted.
According to him, to date, a mathematical model of the spread of coronavirus for Moscow and St. Petersburg has been built with a calculation until the end of summer.
Dmitry Lisovets, Chairman of the Health Committee of St. Petersburg, announced earlier that the peak of the fifth wave of coronavirus has been overcome and the number of patients with COVID-19 has decreased.
Prior to this, the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, announced the passage of the peak of diseases by the Omicron strain in Moscow.