“We have highlighted the omicron,” RIA Novosti quotes Gintsburg as saying.
He clarified that the specialists arrived at the hospital where the patients who returned from South Africa with the omicron strain of the coronavirus are located, took swabs and sequenced them.
Earlier, two Russians returning from South Africa were diagnosed with an omicron variant of the coronavirus, Rospotrebnadzor reported.
Nikolay Malyshev, infectious disease doctor, doctor of medical sciences, in an interview with Nation News recalled the importance of adhering to preventive measures against the background of detecting omicron cases.