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The growing incidence of COVID-19 in Russia was caused, in part, by a shift in the prevalent strain of coronavirus, according to Alexander Gorelov, Deputy Director of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing’s Central Research Institute of Epidemiology.
“Because of alterations in different coronavirus strains, the epidemiological situation in Russia and throughout the world remains severe. Each shift in the dominant strain is generally followed by an increase in the incidence. This is the stage we are now at “, he stated.
According to Gorelov, the frequency of coronavirus infection in …