Director of the Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Alexander Gintsburg said that those vaccinated with Sputnik V would most likely not get sick with the coronavirus, which is caused by the Omicron strain, noting that he himself was infected with a new variant of COVID-19, but did not get sick, thanks to protection vaccines. It is reported by RIA Novosti.
“Those who have already been vaccinated with Sputnik will most likely not become infected with the coronavirus caused by the Omicron strain, and may not know that they have been ill until they take an antibody test and look at virus neutralization on Omicron. That's what I did when I flew abroad. If I hadn’t been able to determine the virus-neutralizing antibodies to Omicron in my serum after the trip, I would never have known that I was infected with it, ”Gintsburg said.
He stressed that a blood test after his trip showed a high titer of virus-neutralizing "omicron" antibodies.
Earlier, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor and Chief Researcher of the Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Petr Chumakov said that the pandemic could end thanks to the “omicron”. According to him, a new strain of coronavirus can be called a "culmination". The virologist noted that in Russia the omicron pandemic will last about two months.
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