“We have been living [in a pandemic] for 2.5 years, during this time the strain has changed three times.
And then it will be like that, about once every eight months.
The change in circulating strains with covid occurs a little faster than with influenza, ”he said.
Those types of the omicron strain that prevail today are very different from the first version of the strain, the scientist noted.
“Sequence first of all, properties.
The symptoms are not very different.
VA.2.75, for example, is gone, it is not so viable,” Gunzburg added.
The head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, did not rule out a steady increase in the incidence of coronavirus in Russia in September.