Virologist spoke about the ability of "omicron" to combine with other strains

The omicron strain of CORONAVIRUS can combine with other variants in the human body, said Alexander Chepurnov, HEAD of the laboratory for especially dangerous infections at the Center for Fundamental Translational Medicine. Ura.ru writes about it.

As long as Omicron does not displace the previous version of the Delta coronavirus, people will be able to become infected with them at the same time, the virologist said.

He explained that the structure of the "omicron" contained part of the cold-like virus. This variant of covid-19 captured a whole fragment of the genome of another infection and the mutation was not accidental, Chepurnov noted.

It is the ability to exchange genetic material that explains the cases of simultaneous infection with two strains.