MOSCOW, July 17. / TASS /. The third wave of coronavirus infection in Russia is in full swing. It will be active for at least another three months, virologist Evgeny Timakov told TASS.
“Our third wave began a long time ago, and we are now in its midst. It is not going to decrease and decrease. This third wave will be long for us, extended in time for at least three months. Three months from now,” he said …
Timakov noted that the third wave in Russia is proceeding more actively than in other countries – the mortality rate is almost 30 times higher.
“We entered the third wave much earlier than the WHO (World Health Organization) entered, announced that growth began in other countries. We burn much stronger than in other countries, this wave. Lethality is almost 30 times higher than in other countries, “- said the virologist.
Earlier, the director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adanom Ghebreyesus, said that the world is at the initial stage of the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
As of July 16, since the beginning of the pandemic, about 189 million people have been infected with the coronavirus in the world, more than 4 million have died. In Russia, according to the federal operational headquarters for the fight against coronavirus, 5,907,999 cases of infection were registered, 5,300,908 people recovered, 146,868 died. The Russian government launched the stopcoronavirus.rf resource to inform about the situation in the country.
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