Popova expressed hope to avoid a new rise in the incidence of COVID-19

“The pandemic is leaving the capital region.

Today, the incidence is decreasing where the virus came first.

If we do everything right in September, then we can avoid the second rise, at least COVID-19, there will be only SARS, ”Popova said.

She said that the incidence rates in Moscow last week decreased by 16%, in the Moscow region - by 19%, in St. Petersburg - by 26%.

Earlier, Vladislav Zhemchugov, a specialist in especially dangerous infections, said that new strains of COVID-19 lead to natural immunization.

Doctor-infectionist, candidate of medical sciences Evgeny Timakov, in an interview with NSN, commented on the situation with the pandemic in Russia.