“New mutation of Coronavirus Ay.4.2 is a more infectious version of Delta strain, and soon this option will be supplanted with the familiar delta,” RBC reports the words of the Center for Global Virological Networks and Professor George Washington University Konstantin Chumakov.
Earlier, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova said that a new mutation of Coronavirus Ay.4.2 was found in Moscow and Moscow region, which was previously revealed in the UK.
“This is a delta strain, only some of him call Delta Plus. Another mutation appeared in the Delta strain, and, apparently, it makes a virus more contagious and gradually, this option displaces the standard Delta,” explained Chumakov .
He noted that in England, which strains are now circulated, and the share of the strain with mutation AY.4.2 is gradually increasing among other options.
“It is more contagious. As for the severity of the disease, it is difficult to say, because so far there are no such data, it can potentially be, but not necessarily. I do not think that this is an emergency and a fundamentally new strain,” the expert concluded. / P>