In Russia, there is no second wave of coronavirus, what is currently happening is a continuation of the first, said on Friday, September 25, Deputy Director for Research of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor Alexander Gorelov.
“The coronavirus pandemic has not gone anywhere, there is no second wave,” TASS quotes Gorelova.
On the same day, Larisa Popovich, Director of the Institute for Health Economics at the Higher School of Economics, said that it is necessary to assess the wave of coronavirus infections based on the ratio between the number of cases and those who recovered.
She noted that in Moscow the number of discharged patients “consistently exceeds the number of hospitalized and identified”, so the autumn increase in the number of infections cannot be called a “second wave”.
The same was noted by professor and virologist Anatoly Altstein. He said that some rise in the incidence of COVID-19 in Russia cannot be called a new wave of coronavirus. The scientist stressed that the concept of the second wave is “rather vague”. According to him, we can talk about the second wave when the epidemic drops to zero and then grows again, as is happening now in Spain and Israel.
As of September 25, 1,136,0148 cases of coronavirus have been recorded in Russia since the beginning of the epidemic. Of these, 934 146 people recovered, 20 056 died, writes Gazeta.ru.