Minister of health Michael Murashko said that part of the restrictive measures imposed to counteract the spread of mers, will continue until, until medical measures to fight the virus. Earlier the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova said that it is not necessary to wait until mid-summer any visible results on the development of vaccines against this disease.
Until then, until a vaccine or other drug prevention coronavirus in Russia will be partially retained restrictive measures to combat the spread of the disease, Minister of health of the Russian Federation Mikhail Murashko in an interview Naila Asker-zade on the TV channel “Russia-24”.
“Restrictive event, they will also have to withdraw in stages, but some of them will have to survive before the advent of medical measures to prevent the spread”, — assured the head of Department.
The Minister stressed that the restrictions imposed by the authorities to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, will be removed gradually and in stages. At the same time, there is the risk of a second wave of coronavirus in the country, if not will create population immunity.
“This may be another peak, we’re talking about that the virus is still circulating some time will be,” said ant.
In case of detection of symptoms of coronavirus can not self-medicate, as this can lead to complications, warned the head of the Ministry of health.
“When a patient self-treated, waiting, taking self-treatment unfortunately, this category of patients and forms a pool of those extremely difficult patients who then need extensive therapy. I would, of course, that the population is understood,” he said.
According to Murashko, the people of that time went to doctors and began timely treatment, less frequently observed severe diseases.
During an interview for “Russia 24” the head of the Russian Ministry also raised the issue of creating a “passport of immunity” where it would be provided, infected with a coronavirus Russian or not and whether he has immunity to this infection. According to Murashko, in Russia the introduction of such a document is not a difficult task.
“I don’t see this as a problem, really. You can do this, we created a specific information resource, and created it very quickly, in fact, for seven days, was made the new program, in which today, every cases of coronavirus infection is visible”, — said the Minister.
He believes that the process of creating “passports of immunity” should not require a lot of time and effort: “If there is a question about how to pull from the system and dip it in the medical documents.entitiy is not difficult.”
As for the vaccine, the earlier the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova said that we should not expect in the coming months results in the development of a vaccine in the prevention of coronavirus.
She said in an interview to the Information centre for combating the epidemic, which experts hope to soon conduct clinical trials, “but it is clear that before the middle of the summer visible results one can get can’t.”
The world health organization (who) maintains a list of promising vaccines against a new type of virus. The specialists included in the list of nine Russian developments.
As of 23 April, it included six drugs that develops State research center of Virology and biotechnology “Vector”. In addition, the list of who got the vaccine of the St. Petersburg Institute of vaccines and sera and two of the development company “BIOCAD”, reports RBK owned by Grigory Berezkin.
According to media reports, the “Vector” is trying to create a vaccine based drugs against Ebola virus, and measles and influenza A. the Drug, over which runs the St. Petersburg Institute, is based on recombinant protein and nanoparticles.
Just who was included in his list of promising developments 83 of the drug, the final creation of which employs professionals worldwide. Most of them — 77 vaccines are still in preclinical studies. The rest is already been tested on humans. While all Russian drugs undergo preclinical studies.
In Russia, the coronavirus was diagnosed in almost 135 thousand people, of which more than 10.5 thousand cases were recorded in the last day. Died 1280 patients recovered 16 639 people.
