Gennady Onishchenko MOSCOW, Jan 20 The coronavirus pandemic could end in a few months, provided that people will be vaccinated, said the Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Education (RAO), Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences Gennady Onishchenko. Journalists asked if Omicron could become the final strain of the pandemic. everything, finish everything, get vaccinated", the specialist said.
Vaccination remains the most reliable way to protect against coronavirus. According to the head of the Russian Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko, the share of seriously ill patients with COVID-19 is less than 0.03 percent, while the vast majority of patients in hospitals are unvaccinated. To date, more than 76.5 million Russians have been fully vaccinated with two doses. The herd immunity level is 63.9 percent. As Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova previously stated, in order to cope with the pandemic, the country needs to achieve herd immunity of 80 percent or higher. about the features of the course of the disease in patients with «omicron»