“I believe that the omicron with such a massive sifting without death of people, without increasing mortality is a harbinger of the fact that it will leave the human population for some other,” TASS quotes Zhemchugov as saying.
He noted that he had previously spoken about the emergence of a highly contagious strain at the end of the pandemic.
According to him, herd immunity among people has reached such a level that the virus cannot multiply on them.
Earlier, the head of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency, Veronika Skvortsova, said on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel that the proportion of patients infected with the omicron coronavirus strain among the patients investigated by FMBA in Moscow is 76%.