Switzerland detects case of British strain of coronavirus

This is reported by the Swiss Federal Office of Health.

"In Switzerland, a new variant (of the coronavirus. -

), which is of British origin, was identified in two test samples," the department said.

It is clarified that the strain was found in people who permanently live in the UK, but were and were tested in Switzerland.

One person has already been isolated, information on the second is currently being specified.

Earlier, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, they announced the detection of the country's first patient with a British strain of coronavirus infection COVID-19.