The new version of the coronavirus “Delta”, also called the Indian strain, is 70% more elected than the British version, which can lead to a significant increase in infected people and deaths. This TASS reported a cardiologist of the Medical Scientific and Educational Center MSU named after M. V. Lomonosov, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, one of the authors of the new approach in the treatment of severe course of coronavirus infection Simon Matskeplishvili.
“Everything, probably, has already heard about the strain” Delta “or Indian strain. This strain is 70% more infected than the British version (Alpha strain), and one is 50% more infected than the original strain. . And it turns out that if even the death rate of the virus does not change, but only infectiousness increases – the number of people who are infected from every sick person, this leads to a catastrophic increase in people and, unfortunately, the dead people, “said Matskeplishvili, speaking in Time of online discussions “Vaccination from COVID-19 – Myths and Reality” on the expert area of Moscow State University “Dialogue about the present and the future.”
The scientist also noted that the spread of coronavirus can be stopped only with vaccination and restrictive measures.
“In addition to protection against severe disease, in addition to protection against the need for hospitalization and death, vaccine significantly reduce the likelihood of asymptomatic carrier carrier, which reduces the spread of the virus in the population as a whole. All vaccines that now exist in the world are protected from the main strain. – Wuhansky, who has almost left, and from the British version, and from Indian, “he explained.