Onishchenko explained the low incidence of COVID in Russia compared to the United States
“The incidence, of course, is lower than in Europe and the USA, but not the same as it is in statistics, because, of course, the peculiarity of this disease is different from what it was,” RIA Novosti quotes the specialist. As explained by the deputy president of the RAO, “Omicron”-strain, in comparison with previous versions of the coronavirus, causes a more gentle course of the disease, although it is more contagious. Onishchenko noted that in the USA, where there is currently a very high incidence, the new strain came earlier, and the holidays ended on January 2, that is, Americans were the first to go to work and began to get infected. “We have a head start, we have just started work, a timely instruction has been given to develop measures. If we now make it so that our collective immunity is not 63%, but we bring it to at least