Dr. Victor Sadovnici, President of Moscow State University, said that the pandemic of Coronavirus (known also as COVID-19) may last for another year.
He added during an interview with TAAS, a Russian news agency, that vaccination becomes a turning point in fighting the deadly virus across the world.
He warns that he doesn't think that the virus will disappear from the planet over the years to come.
Sadovnici went on to say that the world seeks to make a wide-circulated vaccination in all countries to control the spreading of the COVID-19.
He indicated that he consents with most experts across the globe who think the virus will last as a source of threat for another year.
On the other hand, Dr. Kamel Hafeezov, a Russian epidemiologist assured that scientists in Russia have detected local variants of the Coronavirus such as the British and South African.
He mentioned that it is early to speak of their effects on humans in Russia and in other parts of the world.
He told "Sputnik" a Russian news agency last Thursday that scientists have recently detected in Moscow, the capital city of Russia, hundreds of cases infected with the British variant of the COVID-19.
Hafeezov unveiled that some Russian variants have genetic mutations.
He refused to give names to these Russian variants until gathering more information about these variants.
He stressed that the real number of the strains of COVID-19 in the world is not known accurately so far.
However, the Russian epidemiologist asks scientists to modernize the anti-corona vaccines periodically along with implementing annual campaigns of vaccination among population to cope with any variants of the virus.
He indicated that the full information about the effectiveness of the current vaccines will be available next autumn.
Russia is the first country in the world that has registered an anti-corona vaccine.
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