No Evidence That HIV Is Linked To Emergence of Omicron Covid Variant, Says Russian Expert

There is no proof that the emergence of the new variant of coronavirus, Omicron, is linked to HIV. Initially, these guesses appeared due to the fact that the new variant came from Africa, where a large part of the population is infected with HIV, Head of the Special Research Department for Disease Control and AIDS Prevention at the Russian sanitary watchdog’s Central Research Institute of Epidemiology Vadim Pokrovsky said on Wednesday. “The initial version was that this strain appeared in the body of a person with immunodeficiency, it circulated in the body for a long time and therefore mutated. But…