COVID-19 is not a virus that can live forever in the human body like HIV or hepatitis.
The statement came from Alexei Agranovsky, a professor at Moscow State University and doctor of biological sciences, in an interview with Ura.ru.
Earlier, Sergei Kolesnikov, an academician at the Russian Academy of Sciences, suggested that the coronavirus would take root in the human body in the future, and that there could be another danger of the infection.
"I do not agree with my colleague. Viruses such as COVID-19 can persist for a long time, ie they cannot remain in the body for a long time. "The coronavirus" does its job, "and then the body destroys it through an immune response," the virologist said in a statement.