In Rostov-on-Don, "omicron" was detected in a woman and a six-month-old baby

In Rostov-on-Don, an omicron-strain of CORONAVIRUS was found in a woman and a six-month-old baby, the HEAD of Rospotrebnadzor in the Rostov region, Yevgeny Kovalev, said at a meeting of the regional operational headquarters to combat coronavirus.

“I want to inform the headquarters about the detection by the Rostov Anti-Plague Institute, when sequencing biomaterial from a six-month-old child and a woman from the city of Rostov-on-Don, of a new coronavirus related to the omicron genovariant,” Kovalev said.

He clarified that the woman with the baby had not recently traveled abroad and had no contact with those who had returned from abroad. Thus, Kovalev noted, we are talking about local cases of distribution.

According to the official, now in the Rostov region the Delta strain of coronavirus prevails. it infects about 90% of patients with covid-19 .