A masked woman walks down a street in MoscowMOSCOW, 18 Jan. In Russia, the level of infection with the omicron strain of coronavirus may begin to decline in early February. Anatoly Altshtein, a virologist and professor at the Gamaleya Center, shared this opinion in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper. As the experience of foreign countries, in particular the United States and Great Britain, shows, the spread of the omicron variant reaches a peak in a month, after which a decline begins, the expert noted «… In Russia, there is now an increase in cases of infection. By the beginning of February, it will be a month since we are on the rise,» he explained. /wp-content/uploads/2022/01/7d3fa00f7a8476602235b563ad4ddd9e.jpg» />The immunologist told how not to get infected with «omicron» in the team The B.1.1.529 strain, known as «omicron», was discovered in Botswana and South Africa at the end of November last year . According to experts, those who have already been ill and vaccinated can become infected with it, and the symptoms range from fatigue to headache and body aches. To date, Omicron has been identified in more than a hundred countries, including Russia. The head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, stressed that the infectiousness of the new strain is three to seven times higher than the previous ones. The incubation period was reduced to two to five days.
