“We have a 'perfect storm', because along with a high level of infection, there is no sanitary control.
We have become a perfect laboratory.
The already known list of new strains is just the tip of the iceberg, there should be much more of them, ”RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
He drew attention to the particular danger of the Amazonian strain (P.1).
The Manaus variant (virus) strain has spread throughout the country, he said.
“When we talk about mutations, we have to mean the worst possible course of events,” he added.
It was previously reported that the number of coronavirus cases in Brazil reached 14,754,910.