“We are monitoring and see that there is an emergence of imported cases (omicron. -

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), so they are quickly localized.

But there are cases of infection with the omicron strain in Russia today, ”RIA Novosti quoted Murashko as saying.

Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov commented on the situation with the omicron strain of coronavirus in Russia.

Also immunologist Kryuchkov in an interview with radio Sputnik called for reducing the period of revaccination to four months because of the omicron.