Rospotrebnadzor announced a slow increase in the share of "stealth omicron"

“In Russia, the share of BA.2 is also slowly growing,” Khafizov said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

According to him, it is now 7.4%.

He explained that, as of February this year, Omicron is divided into three main lines: BA.1, BA.2, BA.3.

At the same time, the BA.2 subline is gradually becoming dominant in several countries.

Earlier, the Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced the rapid spread of the omicron strain of coronavirus in the world and the increase in mortality.

Director of the Scientific Information Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Viral Infections Georgy Vikulov, in an interview with the NSN, commented on the situation with the pandemic against the backdrop of the spread of the omicron coronavirus strain.