Director of the Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Alexander Gintsburg said that it is impossible to say for sure that the Omicron strain of coronavirus rarely causes a severe course of the disease, such data come from countries where 60-80% of citizens are vaccinated, and in Russia those who are still vaccinated a little, in people without immunity, a severe course is possible. It is reported by RIA Novosti.

“According to literary data, at the moment it is becoming less and less common, but this is according to information from European countries, where about 60-80% of the population has already been vaccinated, so it is impossible to say for sure. We still have few vaccinated people, so it is possible that the unvaccinated will have a severe course, ”Gintsburg said, answering the question whether Omicron rarely causes a severe course of the disease.

He stressed that those vaccinated with Sputnik V, most likely, will not be affected by the problem of a severe course of the disease after infection with the Omicron strain.

Earlier, the immunologist, candidate of medical sciences Nikolai Kryuchkov said that most of all with "omicron" in the risk zone for mortality are such groups of citizens as pensioners and children under the age of three.

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