Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev. File photoMOSCOW, Jan 28The lockdown was necessary at the first stage of the coronavirus pandemic, but now, in the context of the emergence of new strains, there is no point in it, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with RIA Novosti and other leading Russian media. new strains. Therefore, despite a very large increase in the incidence in Moscow itself, a lockdown is not announced, because it is pointless,» Medvedev said. He noted that if «we could lock everyone in apartments for two weeks, then the virus would died» because the virus lives only in the human environment, «but this is impossible», firstly, because people need to be provided with medical assistance, and secondly, this is also impossible for social reasons. According to Medvedev, the lockdown was necessary at the first stage of the onset of this disease, because there was no understanding of «what it is and how to deal with it.»Medvedev told how to deal with the pandemic «We did not have vaccines, we did not have technologies, we did not have a crisis response system. There was not even a normally deployed system for providing inpatient medical care, although we actually had it better than, for example, in Europe, because it still remains from Soviet times. But still, there were not enough beds, this is understandable. And therefore, the lockdown in this case played a positive role, «Medvedev said. However, the lockdown will be justified if an extremely dangerous a highly pathogenic variant of the coronavirus, the deputy head of the Security Council believes. «For the future, it seems to me that a lockdown is hardly justified. Although never say never.» You can probably imagine, unfortunately, a situation where a highly contagious, highly pathogenic, very dangerous strain appears , so dangerous that there is nowhere more dangerous. And in this case, you have to announce that a lock is being hung. But I hope that this will not happen, «he explained. Nevertheless, Medvedev expressed his hope I expect the situation to develop «in a different direction».
