“I'm not talking about the fact that everything will continue the same way in the future, it seems to me, it is obvious from these statistics that, most likely, this story - for some more and, possibly, a long time.

It is unlikely that tomorrow we will be able to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in terms of the widely discussed problem of newly emerging strains, "Chulanova quoted TASS as saying.

According to him, “now the WHO has drawn the attention of virtually the entire world community to the omicron strain, which has the potential to also spread rapidly”.

According to data as of December 1, 32,837 cases of coronavirus were registered in Russia per day.

In total, 9 669 718 patients with COVID-19 have been identified in the country since the beginning of the epidemic. 

Virologist Yevgeny Timakov, in an interview with FAN, gave a forecast regarding the situation with COVID-19 before the New Year holidays.