Ρωσία-κορονοϊός: Βρήκαν μεταλλάξεις του ιού στη Σιβηρία

Mutations in the coronavirus are appearing in Siberia, the head of Russia’s public health observatory, Anna Popova , announced on Tuesday  .

Rospotrebnadzor of Russia, at a time when the country today recorded a daily record number of 442 deaths from COVID-19.

Popova  said  the Russian Observatory “sees”  specific changes in Siberia “that allow us to assume that in this region (the virus) is forming its own version with specific mutations”, without giving further  details on how contagious or the mutation is considered lethal.

The reassuring thing is that he clarified that this mutation is estimated not to make the virus more dangerous.

She confirmed that clinical trials are underway after the registration of the second Russian coronavirus vaccine, which was prepared by the Vector Institute of Siberia.

Last week the authorities announced that they were going to start last Sunday.

Coronavirus mutations can not affect the effectiveness of the vaccine, said the director general of the Institute, Rinat Maxiutov, as reported by TASS.

A U.S. study in September found little evidence that the virus mutations have made it more lethal, concluding that the severity of COVID-19, a disease caused by coronavirus, is more closely linked to the patient’s genetic profile and to any underlying diseases. which suffers.

Clinical trials of the vaccine, called EpiVacCorona, can now be performed on volunteers over the age of 60, according to the public registry, and the institute’s director said they would begin clinical trials in children in December, TASS reported.

Phase III of the six-month clinical trial began yesterday and involves 180 people, according to the public registry.

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