Director of the Center. Gamalei Alexander Gintsburg. Archival photo MOSCOW, January 19 People without immunity may have a severe course of the disease when infected with the omicron strain of coronavirus, Alexander Gintsburg, director of the Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, told RIA Novosti. that a severe course with this variant is less common.
"According to the literature, less often, but these are the data of European countries, where 60-80 percent are vaccinated, so it is impossible to say for sure. We still have few vaccinated people, so the unvaccinated may have a severe course", said Gunzburg.
He stressed that those vaccinated with Sputnik V most likely will not be affected by this problem at all. Vaccination remains the most reliable way of protection. At the end of September, the WHO announced the connection of deaths from SARS-CoV-2 with the refusal to be vaccinated. According to the latest data, the level of herd immunity in Russia is 56.1 percent. The authorities have repeatedly stated that in order to cope with COVID-19 in the country, it is necessary that this figure reaches 80 percent. Rospotrebnadzor told how «omicron» can behave in Russia