Bulgaria announced the discovery of the British strain of COVID-19 in April

“This (mutated. -

) virus was detected at the National AIDS Laboratory, which is sequencing various virus strains, back in April by Bulgarian specialists.

At the moment this virus is spreading in England ”, - quotes his words on the air of the Bulgarian National Radio RIA Novosti.

On December 14, the UK Ministry of Health announced the discovery in the country of a new variety of COVID-19, which began to spread in London, as well as in the south-east of England.

Later it became known that the mutated strain of coronavirus appeared in the UK in September, but began to spread widely from mid-November.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the identified new type of COVID-19 can be transmitted 70% faster than the original version.

The head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova said that no strain of coronavirus from Britain was detected in Russia.

The head of the department of microbiology of latent infections, virologist of the Gamaleya Research Center for Chemistry, Viktor Zuev, in an interview with the "360" TV channel, assessed the reports of a new strain of coronavirus.