According to the specialist, the suspicions that the virus mutated again arose due to the frequent visits of patients with unusual manifestations of COVID-19.
"Their symptoms were very different from those that I have encountered before, and manifested in mild form," - quoted Coetzee as saying by The Telegraph.
She clarified that among the patients there were mainly young people who complained of a strong feeling of fatigue.
On November 25, it became known that scientists have identified a new strain of coronavirus in Botswana, South Africa and Hong Kong, which could potentially become the most dangerous.
Later it was designated by the Greek letter "omicron".
Kirill Masliev, Candidate of Medical Sciences, head of preventive medicine at EMC, founder of the Heroes Foundation for the support of medical workers, in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, announced the unpredictable future of the COVID-19 pandemic.