Expert: the incidence of covid in Russia may exceed 400 thousand people per day – Society
MOSCOW, January 23. /TASS/. In the next two weeks, Russia may overtake France in terms of the incidence of a new coronavirus infection per day, where over 400,000 cases have been detected daily in recent days. This opinion of TASS is made by Andrey Isaev, the center and general director of scientific molecular genetic research DNAOM.
“The forecast of 100-200 thousand cases per day in Russia is not the most pessimistic, it is average. In the next two weeks, we will organize to overtake France,” he said.
In his opinion, the number of cases of covid in the wave will exceed all past indicators. “Based on possible vaccinated people at risk, we can say that Russia is ill-prepared for this wave. Although in the last six months it seems that the trend is breaking down: even the most skeptical patients are getting the idea that vaccination is the best solution.”
For several weeks in France, an extremely high incidence of covid in the distribution of the Omicron strain in the country. On January 18, a record daily increase of 464 thousand rubles was recorded. new cases.