MSU professor compared the danger of the omicron strain and the delta variant
Professor of Moscow State University Agranovsky: the omicron-strain of coronavirus may be milder than the delta-variant Omicron-strain of the Worldwide Organization Health (WHO), is classified as “of concern”, but there is currently no evidence that it can supplant the delta option. This was stated by Alexei Agranovsky, professor of the Department of Virology, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, on the air of KP radio. Comparing the danger of coronavirus variants, the specialist said that at the moment the delta strain dominates the world the omicron strain is more deadly, no. “Of the dozens of clinical cases that have so far been described, not a single death has been registered,” said Agranovsky. Perhaps the omicron strain will be a milder version of the coronavirus, but this needs to be confirmed by research, the professor concluded. Earlier, the head of the laboratory of mechanisms of population variability of pathogenic microorganisms of