“At the moment, Omicron dominates somewhere in the proportion of 70 to 30, all other strains and, above all, the most serious strain, of the latter it is Delta, accounts for somewhere around 30%,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

Gorelov added that the situation with coronavirus in the regions of Russia is different.

Earlier, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Health reported that the provision of planned medical care to children, patients with oncological and oncohematological diseases, as well as those in need of hemodialysis, would not be suspended, despite the coronavirus pandemic.