“In fact, we cannot completely extrapolate the data from India to ours, because there are vegetarians, the food culture is completely different, there is a different climatic zone and temperature, which does not strengthen the immune system ... How the Indian strain will behave in Russia is not yet clear. possible.

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I think that we do not need to be afraid of “black mold”, "RIA Novosti Gorelov quotes.

Earlier, the head of the state scientific center "Vector" Rinat Maksyutov said that variants of the Indian strain of coronavirus infection COVID-19 were identified in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the Pskov region.

The director of the Gamaleya Center, Alexander Gunzburg, noted that the Sputnik V vaccine would also be effective against the Indian mutation of the coronavirus.