Rospotrebnadzor expert said that COVID has mutated and become seasonal

Experts have every reason to believe that coronavirus has become a seasonal disease. told in a conversation with RIA Novosti, Director of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vasily Akimkin.

“There is reason to believe that the virus has become a seasonal disease. Currently, the epidemiological situation with COVID-19 does not require the introduction of strict restrictions”Akimkin noted.

At the same time, he assured that doctors are not weakening control over the disease. At the moment, the virus, according to Akimkin, has mutated, which is why patients do not experience a severe course of the disease or a large number of deaths as at the beginning of the pandemic.

At the end of December, WHO recommended strengthening measures to ensure the protection of the population due to the spread of a new, highly modified variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus – JN.1.