“Ending the epidemic is two processes. One process is the process of evolution of a virus. We know that in the new host (and man is the new host for the virus), the virus is weakening, ”RIA Novosti quoted her as saying.
She explained that when a virus is transmitted from one person to another, it mutates and weakens.
“The coevolution of the virus is happening so that it can more or less coexist with humans. This virus is now adapting to us. How long it will take is unknown, ”Baranova added.
Another condition for the termination of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the biologist, will be the acquisition by the majority of the population of immunity to the virus through natural vaccination.
So, if 70% of the country's population gets coronavirus infection, most people will have antibodies that can fight the virus.
Earlier, the Izvestia newspaper wrote about the development by scientists of the Department of Virology of Lomonosov Moscow State University of technology for creating spherical particles that can be used as carriers for the antigens of coronavirus infection COVID-19.