“There are doctors and patients in Ogre Hospital who are already infected with the new strain of the COVID-19 virus, which is even more infectious and dangerous than the previously detected one.
The course of the disease is difficult, and we are very concerned, so we regularly test our workers, which helps to detect the disease, ”TASS quotes him.
Earlier, the director of the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization (WHO) Hans Kluge said that a new variant of COVID-19, which was originally identified in the UK, has already been found in 22 European countries.
Doctor of Medical Sciences, infectious disease doctor, Professor Nikolai Malyshev, in an interview with RT, commented on the information about the emergence of a new strain of coronavirus in Britain.