RDIF: Russia may pass the peak of the incidence of "omicron" this week

“According to RDIF, Russia will pass the peak of the incidence of “omicron” this week,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Dmitriev also said that RDIF expects a significant decrease in new cases by the end of February.

The head of the RDIF added that the use of the Sputnik V and Sputnik Light vaccines allowed Russia to cope with the omicron strain "much better than most countries."

Earlier, the Deputy Director for Clinical and Analytical Work of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor, Professor Natalia Pshenichnaya, said that in Russia there is a tendency to stabilize the situation with the incidence of coronavirus.