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Mutations of coronavirus appear in Siberia, Earlier, the head of Russia’s National Public Health Observatory, Rospotrebnadzor, said that the country had a daily record of 442 deaths from COVID-19.
“We are seeing specific changes in Siberia that allow us to assume that in this region (the virus) is forming its own version with specific mutations,” he said. Anna Popova, as reported by news agencies.
Popova did not elaborate on how much contagious the lethal The mutation is considered, but clarified that this will not make the virus more dangerous.
She confirmed that they are in progress clinic tests after the registration of the second Russian coronavirus vaccine, which was prepared by the Vector Institute of Siberia.
Last week the authorities announced that they were leaving last Sunday.
Mutations of the coronavirus cannot affect the effectiveness of the vaccine, said the director general of the Institute. Rinat Maksyutov, as reported by the TASS agency.
A study conducted in the US in September found little evidence that mutations in the virus have made it more lethal, and concluded that the severity of COVID-19, a disease caused by the coronavirus, is most closely related to genetic profile of the patient and with any underlying disease that he suffers.
Clinical trials of the vaccine, called EpiVacCorona, it can now be performed in volunteers over 60, according to the public registry, and the institute’s director said clinical trials in children would begin in December, TASS reported.
Phase III of the six-month clinical trial began yesterday and involves 180 people, according to the public record.
In Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin extended the distance learning period for high school students by two more weeks, until December 6, a restriction that, he said, was effective in preventing the spread of the virus from young people to their older relatives.
The health authorities of the capital announced yesterday that they have sent doctors to the city Yekaterinburg στα Urals to help fight the virus there, something they had done in other areas during the first wave of the pandemic in May.
With 1,971,013 cases since the beginning of the pandemic, Russia ranks fifth in the world in number of cases after UNITED STATES, the India, the Brazil Y France. The total number of deaths in the country amounts to 33,931.
