Russia (bbabo.net) - Almost a third of those infected with the Omicron strain of coronavirus in Russia have completed a full course of vaccination. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova at a meeting of the Coordinating Council for the fight against COVID-19.

"Of the patients whose samples were sequenced, 27.9% have a full course of vaccination. 3.2% were vaccinated once, 68.9% were not vaccinated. Previously ill or were vaccinated, or 4.6% were ill and vaccinated at the same time", - said Golikova, referring to the studies carried out by the institutes of Rospotrebnadzor and the Ministry of Health.

According to her, now coronavirus causes ARVI in 54.5% of cases, community-acquired pneumonia - in 4.1%. At the same time, in 41.1% of cases, the disease is asymptomatic.

“The experience of our colleagues from abroad speaks in favor of repeated vaccination in order to protect ourselves from a severe course of the disease,” continued Tatyana Golikova.

It is expected that the vector of change in the virus will be directed towards reducing its pathogenicity and increasing its contagiousness.

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