Rospotrebnadzor expert: heat will not save from COVID-19

However, such predictions did not come true, says Mikhail Lebedev, a leading expert at the CMD Center for Molecular Diagnostics of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor.

"The heat does not make a decisive contribution - just look at the extreme outbreak of disease in India, where the temperature is far beyond +30 degrees", - Lebedev quoted NEWS.ru as saying.

The expert admitted that "hot summers and bright sun do not protect against the spread of coronavirus infection." “Ultimately, everything depends not on the vagaries of the weather, but on human behavior,” Lebedev said. He also added that the best ways to protect against coronavirus are social distancing, wearing masks, treating hands with antiseptics, and getting vaccinated.

Earlier, Vitaly Zverev, scientific director of the Mechnikov Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums, suggested that the pandemic would decline due to the heat. “As a rule, in the summer period, respiratory diseases always decline. The wave should subside. And rest in resorts will not be an obstacle to this”, - he said.

Note that Moscow has been experiencing abnormal heat for several days. However, the number of new cases of coronavirus infection is declining slightly. And the number of deaths is breaking records.