"Technologies for diagnostics, treatment and patient management have been fully developed to date," said Murashko at a meeting of the Presidium of the Coordination Council under the government to combat coronavirus.

He recalled that Russian specialists who visited South Africa fully studied the course of the disease and carried out the necessary laboratory tests.

Earlier, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova said that the omicron coronavirus strain could overload the healthcare system due to its high infectivity. 

Virologist Pyotr Chumakov, in an interview with URA.RU, said that group-specific immunity formed from contact with several variants of COVID-19 can protect against infection with the omicron strain of coronavirus.