Image of cells infected with the omicron variant of the coronavirus. File photoMOSCOW, Jan 17A mutation of the omicron coronavirus strain was discovered in the Academic Laboratory of the Swedish city of Uppsala, SVT Nyheter reported. «We need to have much more material to know if it can compete with the previous version (coronavirus)», — quotes the channel from the laboratory employee Mats Martinell. Omicron was documented on Friday in three people. The new sub-variant of «omicron» was named BA.2. In turn, Johan Lennerstad, Associate Professor of the Department of Microbiology at the Academic Laboratory, believes that it is too early to talk about the danger and degree of resistance of the mutation of the «omicron» strain.
The German authorities declared Britain a zone of distribution of COVID-19 mutations
