“People with chronic diseases, whose circulatory system or immune system are impaired, are seriously ill.

The rest, subject to the mask regime and hygiene standards, practically does not threaten anything, ”Zverev quotes the Parliamentary Gazette.

He noted that the likelihood of infection from a person with a severe form of the disease is higher, but there is no direct relationship.

According to him, carrying diseases in a mild form are less dangerous to society.

Earlier, the head of the Russian Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko, said in an interview with the Russia 1 channel that the situation with COVID-19 in Russia is very tense.