She did not rule out that the new variant of the virus will be able to bypass the formed immunity, but "this will not be a 100% bypass."
"The immunity, which was formed after the previous illness and after vaccinations, it will still make the health risks from this new virus very small," RIA Novosti quoted Popova as saying on the air of the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station.
Earlier, the head of the technical group of the Emergency Diseases Unit of the World Health Organization, Maria Van Kerkhove, said that WHO does not yet have data on deaths from the new omicron coronavirus strain.