“Everyone arriving from abroad will be tested for coronavirus.
Thanks to these measures, the patient infected with the British strain was promptly identified, isolated and is now healthy.
In addition, at the moment, the borders with Great Britain are completely closed, "RIA Novosti Gorelov quotes.
He stressed that all these activities "will break the epidemic chain and prevent the spread of a new strain of coronavirus in Russia."
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.