General Director of “Biocad” Dmitry Morozov stated that it is impossible to speak of “European” and “Asian” COVID-19 and “evil” mutation of the coronavirus. It is one and the same disease.
“In our opinion, there is absolutely a slight mutation, and it is the same virus which is circulating on many continents. And those mutations that accumulate are not systemic,” he said on air of the channel “Saint-Petersburg” of 15 June.
According to him, the virus is not interested to kill his master.
“He recently came to us from wildlife. It actually adapts to life in the human body. And these mutations are intended so that it is less bad consequences created for the host to further spread”, he said.
the world health organization added nine Russian development of vaccines against COVID-19 in the list of promising. Developer for two of them and an industrial partner of another acts of the St. Petersburg pharmaceutical company “Biocad.”
Dmitry Morozov informed in an interview to “Fontanka” said that he was confident that the vaccine will help to combat the epidemic, despite the mutations of the virus.