“By the end of last year we saw that we have a variant of the very strain of Great Britain that is causing so much concern today,” she said in an interview with the Russia 1 TV channel.
Earlier, Popova said that the British strain of coronavirus was detected in one person in Russia who flew in from the UK.
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.