RIA Novosti informs about it.

Omicron now dominates the country, "Biden said, noting that this happened very quickly.

In connection with the difficult situation with the coronavirus, he urged residents of the country to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Earlier in the United States reported the first death caused by a new strain of coronavirus infection "omicron".

Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor of the Department of Virology, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Alexei Agranovsky, in an interview with NSN, noted that the rapid spread of omicron does not mean that the number of deaths from COVID-19 will increase.