Experts spoke about the "fatalistic" decisions due to the strain "omicron"

Rejection of mass restrictions with a very contagious "omicron" is becoming a global practice, and it is quite difficult to protect people with the same methods. Larisa Popovich, DIRECTOR of the Institute for HEALTH Economics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, told RBC about this.

Earlier, the press secretary of the President of RUSSIA Dmitry Peskov said that the Russian authorities are not discussing the introduction of a lockdown. The Moscow authorities also abandoned the lockdown, sources close to the city authorities told RBC. They explained this decision by the negative effects for business, the labor market and the fact that the level of hospitalizations is still low.

“Even to track the contacts of a person who is a carrier in the first three days of the incubation period is simply impossible. The leaders realized that these lockdowns do nothing, except that people leave after them, and a massive upsurge begins. Basically, everyone has now become fatalists and let this situation take its course. The lifting of restrictions fits well into generally accepted decisions, this story is too contagious, and it is simply difficult to protect people with the old methods, ”Popovich believes.

With the fact that there is no need for mass isolation at the moment, the scientific director of the Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums named after I.I. Mechnikov Vitaly Zverev. In his opinion, such measures will not lead to a positive change in the epidemiological situation.