“On February 19, two cases of a new British strain of coronavirus were detected using a PCR test,” RIA Novosti reports the Pasteur Institute.

One of the patients arrived from France for his father's funeral, the second is a patient at the Sheraga hospital in northern Algeria.



According to the Ministry of Health, the total number of coronavirus cases in Algeria has exceeded 112 thousand.

Earlier it was reported that a new strain of coronavirus was discovered in Norway.