“Risks, of course, of a new wave of infection exist,” Murashko said in an interview with Naila Asker-zade on the Russia 24 channel.

He noted that in a number of countries today an increase in the incidence is already recorded.

“This is a number of European countries, China, so we are preparing,” the minister added.

Immunologist, Candidate of Medical Sciences Nikolai Kryuchkov told the Izvestia newspaper details about the XE coronavirus strain.