Gunzburg warned that the new variant of COVID-19 "omicron" could supplant the "delta"

"He (" omicron ". - 

) can displace the delta strain and immunize the population," the scientist quoted TASS as saying.

Gunzburg explained that this can happen if the new variant has a longer incubation period and at the same time it itself is highly contagious.

Earlier, the Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that 23 countries had reported the detection of the omicron coronavirus strain.

Chief freelance infectious disease specialist of the Ministry of Health Vladimir Chulanov commented on the situation with the omicron coronavirus strain.