Find the omicron in an hour and a half, even if virus in the incubation period, maybe a new test system from the Federal Biomedical Agency. It has just been registered, but there are already orders. And there are many of them. Meanwhile, according to the director of the Gamaleya Center Alexander Gintsburg, every third sick coronavirus COVID-19 in Moscow contracted a new strain.
Omicron continues to displace the delta. If earlier this was confirmed by world statistics, now Russian scientists also have such data. For several weeks of the existence of the strain on the territory of our country, its detection in certain groups of patients has grown from one to one and a half percent in mid-December 2021 to 49 percent by the end of the New Year holidays. Today the figure is even higher.
“Yesterday and today we see a rather pronounced dominance of the omicron over other lines, primarily the delta. Yesterday’s figure in our cohort (I want to emphasize this) is 76 percent of the omicron. Therefore, it is obvious that there is a replacement. But this is not surprising All countries of the world are writing about this. And there are grounds for this, “notes the head of the FMBA, Veronika Skvortsova.
What the spread of omicron is inevitableall scientists say. According to the director of the Gamaleya Center, Alexander Gintsburg, in Moscow, for example, about every third of the total number of cases has become infected with a new strain.
“Primary joint data obtained with the Moscow Department of Health say that on the first day of this week, up to 30 percent of the omicron strain was already circulating in the population,” says Alexander Gintsburg, director of the Gamaleya Research Center.
Free beds remain in the capital’s reserve. But if the wave of morbidity is too strong, the Moscow authorities do not exclude the introduction of additional restrictions.
The Russian test system for detecting “omicron” has already passed registration. The first to develop it began to be engaged just in the Federal Medical and Biological Agency. Orders for the system have already come from large state corporations and different regions of the country. The test system allows you to distinguish “delta” from a new strain in just one and a half hours. And this, accordingly, will allow doctors to quickly select the desired treatment regimen.
“We will provide a working turnover within 7-10 days. We will reach the base capacity – one million tests per week. The test system is produced and developed by the Strategic Planning Center of the FMBA of Russia. We have practically no capacity ceiling. If necessary, the capacity can be increased and up to two and up to three million a week, “emphasizes the head of the FMBA, Veronika Skortsova.
Until a likely new wave, as the president said Vladimir Putin, – about two weeks. And the main thing that can be done during this time is to take all possible measures to reduce the impact on the health care system. Epidemiologists predict that the most unprotected from the point of view of immunity can suffer from the new strain in the first place. And in case of non-observance of preventive measures, explosive morbidity cannot be avoided.
“By monitoring the situation, there is a sharp increase in the incidence. , they get sick in a milder form. According to my monitoring, they do not get to hospitals. But it also affects children, “- comments on the situation pediatrician, infectious disease specialist, vaccinologist, candidate of medical sciences Evgeny Timakov.
According to the Gamaleya Center, vaccination shows reliable protection against omicron “Sputnik V” and revaccination with Sputnik Light. The neutralizing ability of serum to the strain decreases, but still remains higher than that of other vaccines. According to the director of the Center Alexander Gintsburg, the effectiveness of the drug, taking into account revaccination, can reach 80 percent. And the Gamaleya Center is ready to provide accurate clinical data on the effectiveness of Sputnik in two weeks.
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