“There are more infections.
We saw this before the coronavirus - both old, forgotten, and new, which were previously unknown, ”RIA Novosti quotes her.
She noted that this trend was influenced by a new way of life of a person, which implies a greater number of contacts, active migration, and invasion of those territories where a person has never been before.
As Popova pointed out, the main thing in the work of specialists in this regard, having discovered a new pathogen, is to assess its pandemic potential.
Earlier, Popova announced the absence of new dangerous variants of the coronavirus.