The only way to stop the coronavirus pandemic is to vaccinate 75 percent of the world’s population in the shortest possible time. RIA Novosti was told about this by the president of the International Association of Specialists in the Field of Infections, former chief freelance specialist of the Ministry of Health of Russia on infectious diseases Irina Shestakova.
According to her, any – bacterial or viral – epidemic can be defeated only by vaccinating at least half of the population. At the same time, Shestakova drew attention to the fact that we are not talking about the immunization of the population in three to five years. “In principle, you need to vaccinate in a fairly short time, create an immune layer quickly,” the infectious disease specialist explained.
Over the past day, 22,851 cases of coronavirus infection have been detected in Russia, the total number of those infected since the beginning of the pandemic has reached 3,401,954. Over the entire period, 61,837 deaths were recorded, 2,778,889 people recovered.