Ambulance at City Clinical Hospital No. 40 in Kommunarka MOSCOW, Jan 14 Option Coronavirus «omicron» due to its contagiousness may displace the «delta» in Russia, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said on Friday. «We assume that, given the contagiousness of this strain, according to various estimates, it is from three to seven times, the number (of cases — ed.) will grow, and gradually, as is the case in other countries, the omicron strain will replace the delta strain, which is still dominant in Russia,» she said at a briefing.
Omicron is up to seven times more infectious than other coronavirus strains, Popova said
