The doctor assessed the risk of infection by the coronavirus in the resort

Doctor Anton Elster, who treated the first patient with COVID-19 in the Crimea, estimated the probability to be infected by the coronavirus during a beach holiday.

The medic stressed that to virus can, for example, during bathing.

“If the patient sneezed, spat, and you after it went into the water and she came to you in the body through the mouth or through the nose, you’ll get it. So no need to gargle salt water, don’t swallow, don’t need the extra time to dive, “he told Elster in an interview with “Parlamentskaya Gazeta”.

Relaxing on the beach, the doctor recommended to stick to each other at a distance of one and a half to two meters. Transport, shops and other public places should wear a mask.

Pandemic coronavirus infection COVID-19 covered almost the whole world. According to the latest who data, there are more than nine and a half million infections, almost 490 thousand of them died. In Russia, the number of cases exceeded 627 thousand, almost nine thousand people died, 393 thousands have cured.