She stated this at the presidium of the coordinating council under the government to combat COVID-19.

"Omicron" today accounts for 72.5% of all sequenced detected pathogen variants," Popova said.

Also, the head of the Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko, announced a slowdown in the incidence of coronavirus 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.