Rospotrebnadzor epidemiologist Pokrovsky: there is no evidence of a relationship between the omicron strain and HIV HIV infection. Vadim Pokrovsky, the head of the specialized research department of epidemiology and prevention of AIDS of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare, doubted the hypothesis of some virologists. in the body of this person and therefore mutated. But it could have happened in a different way: a mutation occurred in one person, the next one was infected from him, a mutation also occurred there. And as a result, a lot has accumulated, “Pokrovsky said.
He explained that the new strain was associated with HIV due to the fact that it appeared in South Africa, where the proportion of people with immunodeficiency is 20 percent. p>
The specialist emphasized that HIV cannot be transmitted with the omicron strain. The new variant of COVID-19 is dangerous for HIV-positive people, depending on the degree of immunodeficiency and the special treatment received.
Earlier, the Russian virologist Pyotr Chumakov suggested that the omicron-strain of coronavirus has multiple mutations due to the large number of people with immunodeficiency who live in the area of its origin.
A new strain of COVID-19 under the code B.1.1.529 was detected in South Africa on November 11, isolated cases were also recorded in Japan, Canada, Spain, Sweden, Egypt, Austria and other countries. The head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova said that there are no cases of infection with the new strain in Russia.