“So, over the course of two years, there has been an increasingly clear trend indicating that COVID-19 is becoming a seasonal disease, like influenza and other acute respiratory viral infections,” RIA Novosti quotes her.
According to Pshenichnaya, in the autumn-winter period, the maximum increase in the incidence of COVID-19 is observed, and in the summer the incidence of coronavirus infection decreases.
Earlier, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Onishchenko recalled in a conversation with the FAN about the importance of revaccination against COVID-19.
He noted that there is an increase in the number of cases due to new variations of "omicron" BA.5 and BA.2, which are more contagious.