In a comment to TASS, she recalled the "strange, but not terrible" symptoms that doctors observed in the young population in Africa - mainly, it was severe fatigue, which then passed, and a rise in temperature.

"This is not like Ebola ... Yes, we have not yet seen how the virus manifests itself in the elderly, but this is not Ebola," the professor says.

On November 25, it became known that scientists have identified a new strain of coronavirus in Botswana, South Africa and Hong Kong, which could potentially become the most dangerous. 

Kirill Masliev, Candidate of Medical Sciences, head of preventive medicine at EMC, founder of the Heroes Foundation for the support of medical workers, in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, announced the unpredictable future of the COVID-19 pandemic.