He noted that in a month and a half, the death rate as a result of coronavirus infection in Russia increased by 3.5 times.

“It can grow to 200 deaths per day, then we will reach a plateau,” TASS quoted Gunzburg as saying.

The World Health Organization earlier said that the number of cases of coronavirus infection COVID-19 in the world exceeded 608 million.

Immunologist Nikolai Kryuchkov, Candidate of Medical Sciences, CEO of the KEG contract research company, in a conversation with URA.RU, said that 10% of people who have had coronavirus or have been vaccinated do not develop effective immunity against infection.