The head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova said that the “omicron” strain of coronavirus has been confirmed in 83 regions of Russia. She spoke about this at a meeting of the Coordinating Council under the government to combat coronavirus, which was broadcast by the Russia 24 TV channel.
In total, 15,287 cases of infection with this variant of the virus were recorded in Russia.
According to Popova, 70% of Russians infected with Omicron have not been vaccinated, and 95% have not had coronavirus before.
In total, this variant of COVID-19 has been identified in 177 countries worldwide. In six weeks, the number of confirmed cases in the world has increased by almost 30 times.
Earlier, Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko said that the number of patients with coronavirus infection in Russia had doubled in a week.
According to the latest data, 141,883 new cases of coronavirus infection have been detected in Russia, a total of 12,128,796 since the beginning of the pandemic.
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