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The coronavirus mutation is gaining momentum in Russia
The coronavirus mutations detected in Russia do not make it more dangerous and do not affect the epidemic situation, according to Rospotrebnadzor.
In Russia, the COVID-19 coronavirus has undergone a partial mutation in Siberia. So said the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova, reports TASS on Tuesday, November 17.
“We see changes in the Siberia region, which allows us to assume that this region is developing its own version of the coronavirus with certain mutations,” Popova said at the virtual symposium New Scientific Data on COVID-19 Coronavirus Infection.
He assured that the mutations of the coronavirus detected in Russia do not make it more dangerous and do not affect the epidemic situation.
“Everything we see on the territory of the Russian Federation does not improve the pathogen, it does not weaken it, we only see the smallest changes that can occur in it,” Popova said.
According to her, thanks to a good team, Rospotrebnadzor and its subordinate institutions can track all the changes in the virus.
“Yes, we see a lot, but absolutely everything that we see today, all the changes that we see, do not affect any epidemiological aspect of the new coronavirus,” said the head of the department.
Popova also said that in early spring, variants of virus strains from Western Europe were massively imported into the Russian Federation.
“But we don’t see the import from China at all. That is, the strains that were brought in from China earlier this year are not circulating in the Russian Federation,” he explained.
The Rospotrebnadzor press service said that this was not an exceptional case, typical only for Siberia, and suggested that it was a mutation already widespread abroad.
“We just detect mutations that are common in other countries with close monitoring. For example, in Siberia, in isolated cases in various regions of the European part of Russia, a mutation has been detected that has spread to Japan. Research is in progress. course, “the department said.
Previously, American scientists said that mutations allowed COVID-19 to spread faster around the world, but because of this, the pathogen did not become more dangerous.
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