Popov: the mild course of the disease with the omicron can be explained by the absence of the elderly in South Africa 
there are few older people in South Africa (South Africa). The head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova told about this on the air of the radio “Komsomolskaya Pravda”.
The country's chief sanitary doctor said that South Africa, an outbreak of a new variant of COVID-19 occurred among students.
“We are neither under which version of the new coronavirus we do not see a large-scale severe course among young people, “Popova said.