The Ministry of Health recognizes the omicron strain as the most infectious variant of the coronavirus

The Ministry of Health said that omicron is the most infectious strain of all existing

The Omicron strain of the coronavirus is the most contagious infection in existence. This is stated in the 14th version of the recommendations of the Ministry of Health on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of coronavirus infection, which are published on the department's website.

“The omicron variant, which carries multiple substitutions in the S-protein of the coronavirus, half of which are located in the receptor-binding domain, has the highest contagiousness of all SARS-CoV-2 variants,” the document says.