Revised biosafety recommendations and guidelines in the post-COVID era

Problems connected with the spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus through the continents and countries (fast transformation of epidemic character of COVID-19 into pandemic process and evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus into common ARV pathogen) forced many countries to revise their sanitary rules and requirements (biosafety bases). That was done in order to strengthen the effectiveness of anti-epidemic measures and their implementation by the institutions responsible for public health and by the ones which investigate properties of pathogenic microorganisms and develop remedies and prophylactic means to fight against infectious diseases. In this article different aspects of biosafety recommendations’ updates are discussed and the conclusion is done that the Sanitary Rules of the Russian Federation is one of the best national recommendations to work with dangerous pathogens because of maximally wide use of rules in different spheres of laboratory practice. Also, the formulation of biosafety bases is modernized in order to accent the attention on the main points: biological danger and its sources, infectious agents and their classification, levels of biosafety work with infectious materials, risks of working with pathogens. The authors show based on the gathered scientific and practical knowledge in many countries all over the world the big number of revised definitions and paragraphs of the biosafety rules are used in working with microorganisms, and in spite of the absence of fully agreed upon common algorithm for displaying biosafety positions the revised national biosafety manuals are the bastions for prevention of the spread of dangerous infection, for perfectioning of the ways of physical and technical defense of potentially dangerous objects, for increasing of responsibility of civil society in the battle with the environment destruction. The authors declares no conflicts of interests.

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