This was stated by the head of the branch of the State Research Center for Virology and Biotechnology in Yekaterinburg, Alexander Semenov.
“Pandemics that cause respiratory infections usually last up to three years, but we must remember that the current pandemic has been terrorizing the world for 1.5 years. In three seasons, collective immunity is usually formed around the world, and this is enough if there is no effective mass vaccination. “But if we have it, then there is a high probability that we will stop the pandemic by the end of the second year,” Semenov explained.
Recent data from Johns Hopkins University show that more than 190 million people have been infected with the coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic.
More than 4 million people have died from complications caused by the infection. More than 3.6 billion doses of the vaccine have been administered worldwide.