“In any case, the spread of monkeypox will not be similar to COVID-19, neither in terms of the speed and scale of spread, nor in terms of peak health, social and economic burdens.
There will be no lockdowns, remote work, ”RIA Novosti quotes her.
Pshenichnaya stressed that the disease does not spread as easily and rapidly as COVID-19 or the flu, and close, prolonged contact with an infected person is necessary for its transmission.
Earlier, the World Health Network reported that monkeypox was officially declared a pandemic.
Professor of Virology, Chief Researcher, National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after N.F.
Gamalei Anatoly Altshtein, in an interview with the NSN, said that the chance that monkeypox will become a pandemic is very small, and mass use of vaccines is not expected.