Moscow, March 25: Virologist Mikhail Shechelkanov, head of the Microbiology Ecology Laboratory of the School of Biomedicine of Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University, said in an interview, “The novel corona virus pandemic in the best case will subside in summer and at worst case will survive for another season of winter.
He said that the best situation is that in the summer European and American countries will be able to control the corona virus pandemic and stop the spread of this pandemic wave. That would be pretty cool.
Russia’s leading virology expert also anticipated a situation when the COVID-19 will remain in the world for another winter season. In this scenario of corona virus epidemic, the US and the European Union will have to be isolated from the entire world. That would be the worst case, causing a major epidemic to knock again in the next winter season.
Novel Coronavirus pandemic or COVID-19
An unknown pneumonia virus found in the Wuhan city of China in late December 2019 was named Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) by World Health Organisation (WHO).
Since then Corona cases have been reported in more than 150 countries. On 11 March, the WHO declared the corona virus outbreak a global pandemic. So far, more than 403,000 people have been infected with the Wuhan virus worldwide and more than 18,000 people have died.
