Virologist spoke about the danger of a new strain of coronavirus
Virologist Chepurnov: the omicron strain is very different from the Wuhan COVID-19 The recently discovered COVID-19 strain, dubbed “omicron , is very different from its Wuhan ancestor. Alexander Chepurnov, head of the laboratory for especially dangerous infections of the Federal Research Center for Fundamental and Translational Medicine, spoke about the danger of the new strain in an interview with “360”. The specialist noted that now practically nothing is known about the new mutation of the virus. “The sampling is in different countries, that is, [scientists] periodically take samples of the virus and sequenced them entirely in order to understand in which direction the process of genetic changes is going. Therefore, from time to time, science becomes aware of such variations that have more or less changes, “the virologist explained. According to him, when studying the omicron strain, scientists have identified significant changes in many important areas that form the immunological