Rospotrebnadzor created a database of covid genomes

The Rospotrebnadzor website states that all scientific institutions in Russia that are engaged in sequencing covid genomes and are registered on the portal can publish the studied genomic sequences in this national database. The obtained registration certificates, according to the department, allow to provide registered users with the opportunity to use information from the database.

It is not specified when exactly the service was launched. The oldest news published on it is dated March 28th. Over the past 30 days, 5,842 genomes have been published on the service.

Earlier, the head of the Vector Center, Rinat Maksyutov, reported that about 14 thousand coronavirus mutations were detected in the country, but most of them do not affect the properties of the virus. Moreover, the head of the Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after V.I. Gamaleya Alexander Gintsburg talked about the "Russian" strains of covid. He specified that their properties are currently being studied. About the imminent appearance of "Moscow" strains of coronavirus spoke before the Deputy Director of the Center. Gamalei Denis Logunov. He also clarified that not all strains of covid are dangerous, but in any case, it is necessary to monitor all changes and "work ahead of the curve" to develop new vaccine options.

Note that Gunzburg did not see the need to change the composition of the Sputnik V vaccine due to the strains of the coronavirus. He believes that it is necessary to maintain a high titer of antibodies, and in case of their decrease, to be revaccinated.

- It takes quite a long time to create a new vaccine under our regulations. The scientific part will take ten days, and the regulatory part - three to four months. During this time, the virus mutates, and another strain will come. Therefore, given the picture of the mutational activity of SARS-CoV-2, it is a thankless task to create vaccines for new strains, Izvestia quotes the expert.

Let us remind, by the way, that for nine months almost half of those vaccinated with the drug "EpiVacCrorn" have disappeared .