“It can cause a more severe course of the disease”: the World Health Organization spoke about a new strain of coronavirus - “Pyrol” (3 photos + 1 video)

Rospotrebnadzor also commented on the situation with the virus.





In 2020, the world plunged into the covid pandemic on a grand scale. The first cases of disease were registered in China, then the virus spread across all continents. Surely everyone still remembers the lockdown, home confinement and other consequences of the spread of Covid-19.



Then the virus subsided, and the attitude towards it changed. Vaccines appeared, and people developed collective immunity, so The Covid issue has slowly faded away. But not for long.

Representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO), announced a new strain "Pirola". Experts say it is even more more contagious than Omicron, which caused so much noise.

What is already known suggests that this the new variant may bypass existing immunity, increasing probability of infection. In addition, Pirola can cause more severe course of the disease than the variants we've seen recently.

The situation with the new virus was also discussed at Rospotrebnadzor. IN department, they treat Pirola with more restraint and do not consider it a “new the coming of Omicron."



The new coronavirus variant (BA.2.86) “Pirola” has a number of additional mutations compared to previously identified variants "Omicron", and it is more contagious than its predecessors. In the Russian Federation there are tests to detect it, as well as drugs for effective treatment,” the press service of Rospotrebnadzor reported.

And they added that the first laboratory tests were made in China and Sweden research of a new strain. And the results show that Pirola, probably "and not as capable of evading immune defenses as this has been previously stated by some scientists" and is not considered as “the second coming of Omicron.”