Trace of a novel coronavirus pandemic that has spread from China
Pavel Volchkov, head of the MIPT genomic engineering laboratory, said the new strain of the omicron coronavirus could arise due to the fact that in South Africa people have been massively treated with COVID-19 plasma, writes the Izvestia newspaper.
“ If in South Africa and Botswana, the main method is & mdash; it is plasma treatment, and if people have not been specially vaccinated there, then resistance to the injected antibodies is formed from the new variant of the virus. We see in the scientific literature many articles that indicate that plasma treatment was carried out there en masse ',' ' he said.
The virologist noted that in this case, by analogy with antibiotics, it is extremely important to finish the treatment of patients, because otherwise the virus could survive and mutate, and then infect another person.
Recall that the new strain of coronavirus 'omicron' & nbsp; has been identified in Botswana. Later, people infected with this type of virus were recorded in South Africa and other countries. According to experts, numerous changes in its genome indicate high transmissibility of this variant and resistance to protective antibodies of those who have been sick and vaccinated.