The department noted that "since the third decade of April 2020, there has been a decrease in mortality from COVID-19 from 7.2% to 3.2% in the world."
As stated in Rospotrebnadzor, "a decrease in mortality on a global scale may reflect not only progress in treatment methods, but also a likely weakening of virulent properties."
"The observed increase in the spreading potential against the background of signs of a decrease in virulence is probably the main form of adaptation of the new coronavirus to the human population and, apparently, will continue in the future in the form of the integration of SARS-CoV-2 into the structure of seasonal pathogens of ARVI," RIA reports. News post of the department.
Earlier, State Duma Deputy, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, scientist-epidemiologist Gennady Onishchenko, in an interview with FAN, assessed the situation with those who had recovered from COVID-19.