“According to world experts, in South Africa, every person with the omicron variant can infect 3-3.5 people,” she said at a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and members of the government.

Earlier, Rospotrebnadzor employee Kamil Khafizov in the RT stream Letuchka spoke about the hypotheses of the origin of the omicron strain of COVID-19 coronavirus infection.

Virologist Yevgeny Timakov, in an interview with FAN, gave a forecast regarding the situation with COVID-19 before the New Year holidays.