Gunzburg called the share of infections "omicron" in Moscow

The DIRECTOR of the Gamaleya Center also noted that, if necessary, the Russian Sputnik V vaccine can be adapted to a new strain in 2,5–3 months

About 30% of all cases of covid-19 in Moscow are due to the new Omicron strain. This was announced by the director of the Center. Gamalei Alexander Gintsburg, reports TASS.

“Primary data obtained jointly with the Department of HEALTH of the City of Moscow, where our employees are also involved in this work, indicate that on the first day of this week up to 30% of the strain was already circulating - it was in the population - Omicron,” he said.

He also added that "pretty soon" it will be known whether "omicron" will displace the dominant delta strain.

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At the same time, according to him, the process of adapting the Sputnik V vaccine to the omicron strain can take up to three months. “If we parallelize two processes (modifying the Sputnik V vaccine for Omicron and introducing it into production. -), then we can say that the whole process can take 2.5 - three months at the most,” the scientist explained.

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The SARS-CoV-2 CORONAVIRUS variant, B.1.1.529, was identified in South Africa in the fall of 2021. The World Health Organization (WHO) named the strain "omicron" and declared its high transmissibility. On January 11, Hans Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe, said that more than half of the population of Europe would become infected with the "omicron" in the next one and a half to two months.

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Cases of infection with the omicron strain were detected in RUSSIA in December last year. By the end of December, more than 100 Russians had become infected with omicron, and on January 12, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova reported almost 700 infected with this strain in Russia. “Now we have already identified and we see 698 cases in the system,” she said and added that most of these cases occur in the Moscow region.

The day before, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin warned that in the next seven to ten days the number of people infected with COVID-19 would increase significantly, and the capital could face a more critical situation than in previous waves of incidence. “In Moscow, unfortunately, we already see a significant number of people who fall ill with the Omicron strain, and this number, this percentage is growing quite quickly,” he said.

According to the operational headquarters, 17,946 cases of coronavirus infection have been detected in Russia over the past day, and another 745 people have died. At the same time, 4008 people were infected with COVID-19 in Moscow, 66 people died. The level of herd immunity in the capital as of January 6 was 69.88%.

How the number of deaths from Covid-19 in Russia is changing January 12 Daily data from the operational headquarters Created with Highcharts 8.2.2RussiaMoscowSaint Petersburgpr.
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