Ministry of Health denies reports on internal cases of "omicron" in Russia

Russian Ministry of Health denied information about internal infections with a new strain of the coronavirus "omicron", the press service of the department spread the corresponding message.

It says that cases of omicron-strain disease have been registered in the Russian Federation, and, as previously reported, all of them are brought from abroad.

"No other cases of the disease caused by this strain have been detected so far in the territory of the Russian Federation", TASS quotes the report.