Rospotrebnadzor told about the universal Russian tests for COVID-19: Society: Russia: Lenta.ru
Anna Cherkashina, head of the scientific group of genetic engineering and biotechnology at the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor, spoke about the versatility of Russian tests for coronavirus infection. Writes about it RIA News…
According to its identification, all COVID-19 test systems that are used in Russia are detected, regardless of how the human infection virus manifests itself.
“They [тест-системы] focused on that part of the genome that is suspected of SARS-CoV-2, which does not undergo such frequent changes and remains practically unchanged, ”she explained.
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Cherkashina added that differentiating the omicron strain from the desired delta is necessary to control the development of the epidemiological process and assess the likelihood of complicating the situation and predicting the burden on the disease.
“Sequencing or testing elevated test systems of the disease from all patients in a row for the absence of the need, it is enough to analyze some part of the population, up to 5-10 percent of patients in the disease,” she said.
Earlier, the candidate of medical sciences, immunologist Nikolai Kryuchkov said that an overload of the healthcare system is expected in Russia due to the micron. According to him, mortality in the future growth of diseases predicts the impossibility due to the large number of input parameters.