The head of the service, Anna Popova, held a conference call with departments and institutions of Rospotrebnadzor in the constituent entities of Russia.

“For the reporting 17th week, 1533 sequences were downloaded, of which 1428 sequences (93.2% of the total number of sequences) were assigned to the omicron genovariant, 30 (2.0%) to the delta genovariant, and other non-dominant genovariants — 75 (4.8%),” the report says.

Earlier, Sergey Netesov, head of the laboratory of biotechnology and virology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Novosibirsk State University, commented on the situation with the coronavirus pandemic in Russia.