Test for COVID-19 against the background of the inscription «Omicron» MOSCOW, January 8 Complaints about changes in taste and smell when infected with the omicron coronavirus strain are rarely recorded, the deputy director for clinical work of the Moscow Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Gabrichevsky Rospotrebnadzor, doctor of medical sciences Tatyana Ruzhentsova told RIA Novosti. COVID-19 complaints about a change in taste and smell are rarely recorded, «she said. At the end of December, the head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, reported that 103 cases of omicron infection were detected in Russia. Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said on January 6 that there are no only «imported» cases of infection with the omicron coronavirus strain, in the regions it is already being detected in those who have not left the country. 
Murashko announced the identification of» omicron «in people who did not leave the country
