“Now we will very quickly make a set for this omicron, because the design takes 3-4 days, five days to create the test system itself,” RIA Novosti quotes Skvortsova.
According to her, the new strain actually "summed up" the mutations that the virus had before.
As previously reported, the Gamaleya Center believes that the existing versions of the Sputnik V and Sputnik Light coronavirus vaccines will neutralize the new omicron strain of infection, but in accordance with the protocol, scientists have begun to develop new options for medications.