“It must be borne in mind that today the virus is most likely circulating among the active population of young and middle age, what it will look like when it reaches the older generation, the chroniclers - it seems to me a different picture,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

Earlier, Sobyanin said that to date, more than 50% of patients with coronavirus in Moscow have been diagnosed with the Omicron strain.

Infectious disease doctor Nikolai Malyshev, in an interview with Nation News, recalled the importance of following preventive measures against the background of the detection of the omicron coronavirus strain.