An effective drug against the omicron strain of COVID-19 was named in Russia: Society: Russia: Lenta.ru
The head of the Federal Biomedical Agency (FMBA) of Russia, Veronika Skvortsova, said that the drug against COVID-19 “MIR-19” will be effective against the omicron strain. She named the drug on the air of the channel “Russia 24”…
Skvortsova also said that she had tested the drug for the coronavirus “MIR-19”.
According to her, the drug has a sweetish taste, it must be inhaled within 10 minutes. If you breathe the drug after contact with the disease, the viral load drops quickly, Skvortsova added.
FMBA is ready to do a test for the omicron strain of coronavirus in nine days, Skvortsova said. According to her, the design takes three to four days, and it will take another five days to create the test system itself. Skvortsova added that the new version of COVID-19 is interesting in that it actually summarized the mutations that were accumulated by the previous strains.
At the same time, the director of the Gamaleya Center, Alexander Gintsburg, said that experimental work to create a new strain of the omicron coronavirus would take more than ten days. According to the doctor, the approval of the vaccine by the Ministry of Health may take another month and a half if the department takes into account the conditions of the emergency.
The RDIF, in turn, announced the possibility of creating a new version of the vaccine. Kirill Dmitriev spoke about his readiness to create a sufficient number of Sputnik V booster vaccines to combat the omicron strain by February 2022.
At the same time, Dmitriev’s vaccines believe that already amplified Sputnik V and Sputnik Light should be effective against the new strain.
Earlier in November, it became known that specialists from the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor are creating a new rapid test for coronavirus, which will be more accurate in the presence of new mutations in the genome of the pathogen.
According to the British Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization, when a person becomes ill with the omicron strain of coronavirus, the heart rate increases and fatigue increases. According to the organization, cases of the omicron strain did not reveal particularly serious symptoms. Those with this type of coronavirus do not even lose their sense of smell. However, they emphasize that the new strain is still poorly understood and it is too early to talk about symptoms.
Epidemiologist, Candidate of Medical Sciences Alexander Vygonaylov believes that the omicron strain of coronavirus is able to bypass antibodies in COVID-19 patients. A large number of mutations in the Spike protein (S protein) give this ability to the strain. Virologist Pyotr Chumakov has linked mutations of the omicron strain to AIDS. He stated that the new variant of the coronavirus has multiple mutations due to the large number of people with immunodeficiency who live in the area of its origin.
On November 26, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said that the strain could spread throughout the world in a few months. She underlined the seriousness of the European Commission to the news about Option B.1.1.529.
The first reports of infection with the new strain in South Africa, Botswana and Hong Kong appeared on 24 November. Later, news about the discovery of another variant of the evolution of COVID-19 appeared in Israel and Belgium.