Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences allowed the continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic until the summer of 2021

“If we proceed from the fact that the incidence rate subsided in the summer and there is reason to believe that it will increase in the fall, then yes, there are three seasons - spring, autumn, spring. And we must assume that by the summer of next year we will have already returned to our usual way of life, ”Paltsev said.

As Izvestia notes, according to him, there is no clear forecast for the development of the coronavirus epidemic in the fall.

Earlier, State Duma Deputy Doctor of Medical Sciences, Epidemiologist Gennady Onishchenko, in an interview with the NSN, expressed the opinion that the damage from influenza is much greater than from COVID-19.