Predictions Russia may reach peak of Covid-19 spread in next two weeks as cases increase
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The spread of COVID-19 in Russia may reach a peak in the next two weeks, after which it should plateau, Vladimir Chulanov, deputy chief of the National Medical Research Centre for Infectious Disease, said on the Rossiya-1 TV channel on Sunday.
“We should expect a peak in the next two weeks, after which we should reach the so-called plateau, stabilization of the infection rate, and then, [the spread of the coronavirus] should gradually slow,” he said.
It’s impossible to say now that COVID-19 will fully stop spreading regardless of the measures taken as there are still risks that new epicenters of contamination will emerge, Russia’s chief sanitary doctor Anna Popova said on Monday.
“Today it’s impossible to completely stop the circulation of the virus, no matter how closed the country is. Anyway, there is some kind of communication, and there are risks of renewal even if there are no viruses left in the country,” Popova said in an interview with Pavel Zarubin on Russia-24 TV channel on Monday.
Meanwhile, Vasily Akimkin, head of the Central Research Center of Epidemiology under the Russian Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare, stated that the stabilization of the epidemiological situation in Moscow and the Moscow Region should be expected in late June-early July. The expert also predicts a second wave of infection in fall or winter season.
Russia has registered a new record of over 10,600 coronavirus cases in one day, taking the total up to 134,687, the authorities have said. Russia is now the European country to have registered the highest number of new infections.
