Russia may have its own unique strain of coronavirus

He told RIA Novosti about this.

“We are looking forward to our country discovering its own Russian strain with altered properties, if already in Britain, in South Africa, in Brazil, there are strains.

Where the British work, there strains are isolated, and the worse Russia is than Britain, it is much larger, we should have identified a new strain long ago, ”he said.

At the same time, Gunzburg added that so far no Russian strain of coronavirus has been detected, this may be due to the fact that significantly fewer virus samples are sequenced in Russia than in the UK.

Earlier, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova said that a new strain of coronavirus infection, which was previously identified in the UK, was recorded in Russia at the end of 2020.