"The first case of infection with the omicron strain was detected in a foreigner who arrived at the airport in the capital of Algeria on December 10," the department reported to RIA Novosti.
Earlier, the Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that a new variant of the omicron coronavirus has now been identified in 77 countries.
Anatoly Altstein, MD, virologist, on the air of the NSN expressed the opinion that the new omicron coronavirus strain does not yet represent any relevance from the point of view of vaccination of people.