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2022-04-30T22:21:56.610Z
A subspecies of the BA.2 omicron strain, or “stealth omicron,” is the most contagious variant of the coronavirus in the history of the pandemic. This was announced by the head of the scientific group for the development of new diagnostic methods based on sequencing technologies of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor Kamil Khafizov.
Stealth-omicron is the most transmissible of all that we have observed in the entire history of the pandemic, ”TASS quotes Khafizova.
According to him, the share of this option is more than 90% of all detected cases of coronavirus.
Earlier, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences Gennady Onishchenko commented on the situation with the spread of "stealth omicron".
Source: russiart
