Only after the detection of immunity to COVID-19 60-70% of the population can be removed and epidemiological limitations, said the chief epidemiologist of the Ministry of health of Russia Nikolay Briko. In an interview with “Parlamentskaya Gazeta”, he noted that this is the level of immunity at which new virus will spread with much less activity and intensity.
Recent studies have shown that immunity to the coronavirus detected in 12% of Muscovites who passed the examination. A higher percentage can be achieved through vaccination with high coverage. “This is the only way to stop the epidemic, when infections with the droplet mechanism of transmission,” said Briko. Who focuses on a 95 percent coverage of the population, this figure, which guarantees the invulnerability of a society to infection.
Earlier it was reported that the daily growth of new cases of coronavirus infection again fell below the 9 percent supporting emerging in mid-may the downward trend, the report said the operational headquarters.
