China used coronavirus to prepare for new epidemics - version

The panic raised around the coronavirus clearly does not correspond to the seriousness of the problem, said Andrei Kolganov, a leading researcher at the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University. He told the correspondent news agency on February 10. It was reported that in the United States, 18 million people fell ill with influenza virus this year, 300,000 were hospitalized, and 10,000 died. This, however, did not cause any panic in the stock market, although it is obvious that the scale of this influenza and coronavirus is incomparable. Clearly there is more attention than there was at one time to pork or bird flu. There was also a hype, but not as big as it is now. And no such unprecedented quarantine measures were taken, Kolganov said. Talking about the reasons for this state of affairs, the economist hypothesized that the Chinese authorities may have used the coronavirus situation and decided to work out a system of anti-epidemic measures in order to effectively meet such threats in the future. However, due to the huge scale of the events themselves gave rise to increased and increased attention. Recall, as the news agency reported, according to the head of the Russian Federation, today there is a decrease in the rate of increase in the incidence of coronavirus.