News archive on the topic "Omicron"

ECDC: Omicron leads to faster weakening of the immune system

It is too early to talk about the degree of danger of the new coronavirus strain Omicron, which is rapidly spreading across the European continent. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Izvestia was told about this by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). According to preliminary data, the disease when infected with this variant is less severe, but the danger is due to the fact that existing vaccines are less resistant to it.…

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Media about coronavirus: “There is something terrible in the EU, the Russian Federation is an oasis of calm”

Unlike Russia, the countries of the European Union are experiencing a sharp increase in the number of people infected with the new coronavirus strain “Omicron”. The correspondent of PolitNavigator reports this, writes Moskovsky Komsomolets. “Judging by news agency reports, something terrible is happening in Europe. Despite the high level of vaccination (around 80%), the incidence of coronavirus is breaking record after record. In France, the number of infections has reached 180 thousand...

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Omicron is advancing: Russian virologist hopes for cellular immunity, not antibodies

Studies have shown that antibodies after Western vaccines are 40 times weaker in neutralizing the new strain of coronavirus infection, which is now rapidly spreading across the planet. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this in an interview published by Komsomolskaya Pravda, said leading researcher at the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Biological Sciences, professor-virologist Alexander Chepurnov. “In England, where it is now very...

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Geneticist: New strain of coronavirus may be associated with AIDS

It is possible that the Omicron coronavirus strain could have formed among millions of people infected with HIV. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that the head of the MIPT genome engineering laboratory, Pavel Volchkov, said this in an interview with Izvestia, answering the question why everyone is so afraid of the new strain, about which nothing is really known. “Indeed, there are no scientific studies on this strain yet. But in countries...

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“It’s becoming a common cold”: A virologist saw a positive in the new strain of coronavirus

There is no reason yet to assume that the new Omicron coronavirus strain identified in South Africa poses a serious threat to humanity. Anatoly Altshtein, professor-virologist and chief researcher at the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after N.F. Gamaleya, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The Delta variant did not spread as quickly. It was discovered in November 2020, and became predominant in the world...

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