Gunzburg called the development time for an updated vaccine against the "kraken"

The development of an updated vaccine that can protect against a new type of omicron-strain of the Kraken CORONAVIRUS (XBB.1.5) will take two to three months. This was told by the DIRECTOR of the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after N.F. Gamalei Alexander Gintsburg on the air of the RUSSIA 24 TV channel.

Prior to that, he said that the center's specialists had already begun work on a new vaccine.

“The time it takes to create, update a new antigenic variant [of the vaccine], here I can give a less clear answer, it should take from two to three months to resolve this issue. Maybe even faster,” Gunzburg said, adding that most of the time will be spent on clinical trials of a new vaccine.

Experts admitted the dominance of the "kraken" in Russia Society

The first case of infection with the "kraken" in Russia was recorded on January 12. A resident of the Penza region became infected, she was ill in a mild form and has already recovered. Rospotrebnadzor noted that the sick person did not travel outside Penza in November-December 2022. The department said that restrictions due to the first case of "kraken" in Russia are not planned.

Virologists interviewed by RBC explained that the new strain is similar to Omicron, since it is one of its variants, and has no significant features, but it can infect those who have been ill with the first versions of Omicron.

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