it cannot be unequivocally stated that the course of the disease is easier with the omicron strain than with other strains. This was stated by the DIRECTOR of the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after N.F. Gamalei Alexander Gintsburg, RIA Novosti reports.
“According to the literature, less often, but these are data from European countries, where 60-80% are vaccinated, so it’s impossible to say for sure. We still have few vaccinated people, so it is possible that the unvaccinated will have a severe course, ”Gintsburg said.
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He also noted that those vaccinated with Sputnik V most likely will not have a severe course of the disease.
Previously, Deputy Director of the Research Institute. G.N. Gabrichevsky Rospotrebnadzor Tatyana Ruzhentsova, in an interview with Sputnik radio, previously suggested that the omicron strain of coronavirus in Russia may have “new features”.