“In the near future, there will most likely not be any significant increase in the incidence of COVID-19, since now the majority of our citizens have already acquired protection against SARS-CoV-2 in one way or another due to vaccination or a previous disease,” RIA quotes her as saying. News.

Wheat also reminded of the need for revaccination.

Earlier, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova allowed the emergence of new strains of coronavirus infection in Russia.

Immunologist, Candidate of Medical Sciences Nikolai Kryuchkov, CEO of the KEG contract research company, in an interview with URA.RU, expressed the opinion that COVID-19 cannot become seasonal, like influenza and SARS, due to its high pathogenicity.