“To allocate to Rospotrebnadzor in 2022 for the provision of subsidies ... in the amount of 29,172 thousand rubles from the reserve fund of the Russian Government, meaning the production of a kit of reagents for molecular genetic typing of the SARS-CoV-2 strain of the Omicron virus in the amount of 300,000 research, ”Interfax reports.

In addition, the government instructed Rospotrebnadzor to monitor the targeted and effective use of funds with the submission of a report to the government by January 15, 2023.

Earlier, the head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, announced the proportion of the Omicron strain among new cases of coronavirus infection confirmed in Russia.

Head of the Ministry of Health Mikhail Murashko announced a slowdown in the incidence of COVID-19 in Russia.

State Duma Deputy Tatyana Kusaiko, Honored Doctor of Russia, in an interview with NSN, told how the Russian rehabilitation system for patients who had a coronavirus infection has changed.