There are two types of coronavirus. The first of these is similar to acute respiratory disease and passes mildly, without complications, in 90% of infected people. Forty percent of patients have no symptoms at all.
According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the chief physician of a Moscow hospital, as well as a well-known Russian TV presenter Alexander Myasnikov.
He noted that the second type of SARS-CoV-2 causes viral pneumonia. However, such cases are less common.
"The prognosis here depends on the degree of damage to the lungs and the body's functional resources for resistance," he added.
"If a person has COVID-19 in a mild form, then it should be treated on an outpatient basis. If it is severe, it should be hospitalized, because the mortality rate from viral pneumonia among the elderly reaches 10 percent, "the doctor concluded.