“The strain is the same.
The new strain will be when the next time, somewhere in China or at the other end of Southeast Asia, the coronavirus passes from animals to humans, this will be a new strain, "Onishchenko quotes RIA Novosti.
According to him, "what is now called coronavirus strains are subtypes, not new strains."
“Therefore, the subtypes that are now spreading are the same strain that mutates and acquires new properties.
But it's still COVID-19, ”the academician added.
He expressed the hope that all coronavirus vaccines developed in Russia should work against all subtypes of this virus.
Earlier, the head of the Federal Biomedical Agency (FMBA) Veronika Skvortsova told who most often has the majority of coronavirus mutations.