Gunzburg announced the renewal of COVID-19 strains every eight months

The change in circulating strains of the coronavirus occurs faster than the flu - about once every eight months. This was announced in an interview with TASS by the director of the Center. Gamalei Alexander Gintsburg.

“We have been living in a pandemic for two and a half years, during this time the strain has changed three times. And then it will be like that, about once every eight months. The change in circulating strains with COVID is a little faster than with the flu,” he said.

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According to Gunzburg, the current strains of coronavirus (BA.4 and BA.5) are very different from those at the beginning of the pandemic. “Sequence first of all, properties. The symptoms are not very different. VA. 2.75, for example, is gone, it's not as viable," he added.

In mid-August, a strain was identified in Russia that combines the features of "omicron" and "delta" - this is a rarity, since the "delta" strain has practically disappeared. This strain is informally referred to as "Russian delkatron".

Rospotrebnadzor emphasized that patients who had a hybrid variant of COVID-19 had a mild illness, none of them required hospitalization. “At the moment, there is no reason to believe that the hybrid variant leads to a more severe course of the disease or is more transmissible,” they said.

September 16, 11:00 Moscow time Coronavirus Russia Moscow World +59035 (per day) 20.3 million Infected 0 +110 (per day) 385.8 thousand Died +8799 (per day) 3.1 million Infected 0 +31 ( per day) 45.6 thousand Died +613707 (per day) 610.9 million Infected 0 +2874 (per day) 6.5 million Died Source: JHU, federal and regional headquarters for combating the virus

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