Russia (bbabo.net), - According to the forecasts of a well-known Russian virologist, director of the Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after G.P. Somov of Rospotrebnadzor, head of the Department of Epidemiology of the FEFU School of Biomedicine Mikhail Shchelkanov, the world will live in a coronavirus pandemic, perhaps for another three years, writes RIA Novosti.

At the same time, Mikhail Shchelkanov stressed that this period will largely depend on the speed of the formation of herd immunity.

“There are a large number of regional peculiarities, but if we talk about the general long-term trend, then we need to prepare for the fact that in 2022 we will still be in a pandemic, as well as in 2023 and, possibly, 2024. But everything will be largely determined by how fast our herd immunity levels will rise and whetherd immunity levels will keep up with the variability of the virus," he said.

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Doctor of Biological Sciences Mikhail Yurievich Shchelkanov began his scientific activity in the mid-1990s, while studying at the Faculty of Physical and Chemical Biology of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. From 1992 to 2014, he worked at the Research Institute of Virology. DI. Ivanovsky RAMS. As part of the first team of Russian virologists, he studied the ebolavirus Zaire in the Republic of Guinea in 2014. Since 2002, he has been monitoring natural focal infections in the Far East. In 2015 M.Yu. Shchelkanov organized the Laboratory of Microbial Ecology of the FEFU School of Biomedicine, on the basis of which the International Scientific and Educational Center for Biological Safety operates today. In 2016, in parallel with this, he headed the Laboratory of Virology of the Federal Scientific Center for Biodiversity of Terrestrial Biota of East Asia, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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