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Russians will be able to begin to travel in the second half of August. This virologist Felix Yershov said “Cheers.ru”.

Ershov, according to “Rambler”, — the academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), head of the interferon Department and the interferonogenesis laboratory at the National research centre of epidemiology and Microbiology named Gamalei.

In his opinion, the situation with the spread of coronavirus infection COVID-19 in Russia will improve by mid-August, if the citizens of the country will follow a policy of self-isolation.

“After that, the borders of the Russian Federation will open, and people can start to travel” — said the scientist.

In December, China started the outbreak of disease infection COVID-19, which causes the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In March, the world health organization (who) declared the outbreak a pandemic. According to recent reports, globally the number of cases exceeded 3.8 million.

In Russia the number of cases exceeded 177,1 thousand people, the number of recovered — 23,8 thousand people, the number of deaths — 1.6 thousand people.