A regular scientific seminar was held at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology on June 14. Gulmira Alibeyova, a junior researcher at the Population Genomics Laboratory, spoke on "Covid-19 and immune chaos in humans." She said that according to the latest data from the World Health Organization, as of June 14, 2021, COVID-19 was detected in 174,918,667 people worldwide. 3,782,490 of them died. Giving general information about coronaviruses, G. Alibeyova said that human coronaviruses are medium-sized viruses with a positive RNA chain. She gave detailed information about the mechanism of infection and the processes that take place in the body and spoke about the drugs and various vaccines currently used to treat the disease. The seminar participants met this topic, which is very relevant for the current period, with interest.