TASS: Expert says current surge in COVID cases in Russia is only second wave of epidemic
According to Alexander Gorelov, "we can speak about a second wave when the virus mutates and its mutated variant spreads faster and actually supersedes the previous gene variant"
MOSCOW, July 5. /TASS/. The current surge in COVID-19 cases in Russia is a classical second, rather than third, wave of the epidemic, Alexander Gorelov, deputy director of the Russian sanitary watchdog’s Central Research Institute of Epidemiology and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said on Monday.
"As a matter of fact, we in Russia are going through a classical second wave and are observing an upwards phase at the moment," he told an online conference at TASS.
He noted that his opinion about COVID waves differed from the one floated in the press.
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