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That the coronavirus pandemic will not subside overnight is, however, clear. Chinese scientists nevertheless warn that covid-19 will become a seasonal matter, just as is the case with the common flu.
The SARS and MERS viruses, which completely disappeared after their outbreaks, were, according to Chinese experts, a completely different case.
The new type of coronavirus will most likely keep returning, just like the flu. This is due to its ability to survive in the bodies of asymptomatic people, who are those that only transmit the virus but do not feel any symptoms themselves.
Won’t we get rid of the coronavirus?
„It is very likely to be an epidemic that will accompany humanity for a long time, will become seasonal and will settle in human bodies,“ Jin Qi, director of the Institute of Pathogenic Biology at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, told reporters on Monday. For the survival of the virus the most important are precisely asymptomatic people, who do not even know they have been infected, and there may be several million such people in the population.
The epidemiologist has already warned people not to believe speculation about the effect of warm weather on the disappearance of the coronavirus. According to him, warmth has no effect on the coronavirus.
Heat won’t help much
„When we look at how it was in Singapore or Iran, where the climate is significantly warmer, yet the disease is developing there, I do not rely on the warmer period to significantly limit it,“ he said in an interview already at the beginning of March.
„The virus is sensitive to heat, but only if exposed to 56 degrees Celsius for more than 30 minutes, and such heat will never occur,“ confirms this view the head of the infectious diseases department of the teaching hospital of Peking University, Wang Kuej-čchiang. Although the coronavirus is perceived as a stronger flu, Prymula points out that age of patients is decisive for covid-19.
„Regarding the coronavirus, the preferential risk is for the 65+ categories and especially 75+,“ said the epidemiologist.
