The virologist said about changing the dynamics of the coronavirus in Russia

The virologist said about changing the dynamics of the coronavirus in Russia
13.04.2020 Roman news about the coronavirus

The spread of the coronavirus in Russia changed the path of development. The Director of the Institute of health Economics HSE Larisa Popovich said on the “Sunday night with Vladimir Solovyov” on the channel “Russia 1”, RIA Novosti reported.

According to her, the situation with infection in the country has long developed in a quite positive dynamics as social distancing measures and restrictions worked well. However, in recent days, the development has gone “not according to the optimistic trajectory”.

Popovich recalled that the number of cases from 1 to 10 thousand increased unevenly in different countries. So, in the US it took 6 days in Germany, Italy and Spain — eight days, in Austria — 15 days, and in Russia — 12 days. In five countries, however, revealed more than 100 thousand infected patients, on average, it took 15-18 days, the expert added.

The infection is spread largely because of the irresponsibility of Russians, mainly young, who believe that they are outside the risk groups. Even though they have serious complications of pneumonia COVID-19. “The start of The physical problems, physical endurance decreases, changing very much psychological characteristics, you experience depression significantly more often than the regular population,” she concluded.

April 12, Vice-Premier of Russia Tatyana Golikova has predicted a date for the total abolition of restrictive measures in Russia. According to her, the complete abolition of restrictive measures in case of favorable outcome is possible by summer.

Russia is on 16th place in the number of infections. In the country since the beginning of the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 revealed 15 770 person, 130 died 1291 recovered. The total number of infected people in the world exceeded 1.84 million.