MOSCOW: Russia has reported some COVID-19 infections with a new coronavirus variant believed to be even more contagious than Delta One, the RIA news agency said on Thursday.
It is possible that the AY.4.2 version will spread widely, RIA quoted Kamil Khafeizov, senior researcher at the State Consumer Monitoring, as saying.
This could cause the rate of new COVID-19 cases, already at record highs in Russia, to rise even higher.
He said the new version could eventually replace Delta, although the process is likely to be slow.
President Vladimir Putin this week approved a government proposal for a week-long workplace shutdown in early November, after coronavirus-related deaths across Russia in the past 24 hours rose to 1,028 on Wednesday with a daily record of 34,073 new infections. killed together.
This story has been published without modification in text from a wire agency feed. Only the title has been changed.
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