The main ways of transmission of coronavirus in Russia in the conditions of closed borders with other countries — local distribution of secondary and tertiary cases. This was stated by the academician of RAS, Professor, chief epidemiologist, Ministry of health of Russia Nikolay Briko in an interview to “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”.
He recalled that the first quarantine measures in Russia were adopted at the end of January when there were restrictions on the border with China. With the development of the epidemic, these measures have become more varied and harder. This has enabled the country to keep the pace of development of the epidemic and to gain time for the mobilization of the medical service.
Due to this, in Russia there was virtually no imported cases of coronavirus from China. However, many people infected came from European countries. Briko referred to the data of Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin, according to which in the country over the past month and a half from abroad came to more than 120 thousand people. Thus there were many foci of infection, imported from different parts of the world.
The most active spread of infection occurs through close contacts in the family, in places of the big congestion of people and organized groups with a long stay of people (military groups, educational institutions, nursing homes, psycho-neurological dispensaries, penitentiary institutions).
Earlier the head of Ministry of health Michael Murashko said that the second wave of the epidemic coronavirus can manifest in the form of a second peak on the chart of the detected infections. This scenario is possible until, unless there is a population immunity that will form the discontinuities in the transmission of the virus.
Russia is on the 7th place by the number of infected citizens with the index 134 687 people. In total, for all the time of a pandemic in Russia recorded 1280 deaths, recovered 16 639 people.
