Christian Drossen, head of the virology department at the Charite Clinic in Berlin, who is a member of the Coronavirus Council under the German government, believes that the COVID-19 pandemic in the country can be considered completed.. This is reported by Tagesspiegel..

“According to my assessment, this winter we are experiencing the first endemic wave of coronavirus. This means that the pandemic is over,"

He emphasized that at the end of winter, immunity to COVID-19 in the population will be so widespread and stable that the virus is unlikely to be able to spread massively in the summer.. The virologist called the next mutational jump the only limitation, but so far such a scenario is unlikely..

After being asked about the situation in China, where the coronavirus is now massively spreading after the abandonment of the “zero tolerance” policy for COVID-19, the virologist said: “The big mistake in China was that there was no awareness of vaccination among the population, especially among the elderly.”.

Drossen believes that the vaccination campaign in Germany and Europe as a whole was a decisive step in the fight against the pandemic.. Virologist considers justified the restrictions imposed due to the spread of COVID-19.

" From the very beginning it was clear that this was impossible.. But if you didn't do anything at all, there would be a million deaths or more in Germany before the Delta strain spread.. Therefore, we had to limit human contacts,"

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Recall, earlier it was reported that in the first 20 days of December, about 250 million people, or 18% of the Chinese population, became infected with Covid-19.. This came amid a sudden lifting of restrictions that had kept the disease at bay for almost three years..