Anna Safonova, clinical laboratory diagnostics doctor, director of product policy at Labquest medical laboratory, said current coronavirus mutations do not yet require updating the composition of existing coronavirus vaccines. This has been reported TASS.
According to him, there are currently certain requirements for the creation of vaccines in Russia and all over the world. In any country, there are also special organizations such as the Russian Rospotrebnadzor that monitor the number of new strains or mutations in existing variants of the virus.
“And before we can decide to create a new vaccine or change the composition of an existing vaccine, the number of mutations has to exceed a certain threshold. To date, this need has not been identified. “The situation in Rospotrebnadzor is being monitored and under tight control,” Safonova said.
Formerly an immunologist, Doctor of Medical Sciences Vladislav Zhemchugov declarationIt will only become clear within a year whether the coronavirus will be seasonal.