According to Myasnikov, elderly people are the most sick with coronavirus infection.
“The defense is only the third vaccination so far,” he said in an interview with the Public News Service.
He also suggested that a correction of vaccines may be required in connection with the new strain, noting that "these works are now underway, including the creation of a nasal vaccine."
Earlier, the director of the Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Alexander Gintsburg, said that experimental work on obtaining a new version of the vaccine against the omicron coronavirus strain would take no more than ten days, followed by regulatory procedures.
The Federal Biomedical Agency said that they are ready to quickly make a test system to detect the omicron coronavirus strain.