“New strains will constantly arise, because the transmission of the virus will constantly go on, and those strains that will overcome the immune barrier will be selected,” Ginzburg is quoted by Interfax.
According to him, “whether the new strain will be more pathogenic and more contagious is a second matter.”
Previously, virologist Pyotr Chumakov, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Laboratory of Cell Proliferation at the Institute of Molecular Biology named after A.I.
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Engelhardt also spoke about the mutations of the coronavirus.
The head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, said that during mutations, the coronavirus lost its receptors that allowed it to penetrate into the lung tissue.