During a coronavirus pandemic, you need to keep your body warm and protect yourself from the cold. As the immune system weakens during a cold, the body can become infected more quickly.
This was stated by Natalya Pshenichnaya, Deputy Director for Clinical and Analytical Affairs of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor.
At present, our main task is to follow all preventive measures recommended by Rospotrebnadzor. It is necessary to follow the use of medical masks, hand hygiene and social distance, to protect against colds, "RIA Novosti quoted Pshenichnaya as saying.
The agency's interlocutor said that because COVID-19 has not yet been fully studied and is a new type of virus, it is too early to make any predictions about the increase or decrease in the number of infections.
Earlier, the leader of the Russian Liberal Democratic Party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, said that the vaccine was the main weapon against the infection. In recent days, there has been an increase in the number of new coronavirus infections in Russia every day.
During the pandemic, medical professionals recorded 1,194,643 cases of COVID-19 and 21,077 deaths.