No spread of British strain COVID-19 recorded in Russia

“To understand whether it circulates in the Russian Federation or not, we are now conducting a large number of studies called sequencing.

So far, we do not see the spread of this virus among people in the Russian Federation, ”she said.

Popova noted that more than 1.4 thousand coronavirus mutations have been identified in Russia, but all of them are neutral and do not carry any changes.

Earlier, the World Health Organization (WHO) spoke about the latest data on the worldwide spread of British and South African strains of coronavirus infection COVID-19.