"In one of the laboratories in the Czech Republic, they are checking the possible appearance of the omicron variant of COVID-19," RIA Novosti quotes a statement.
According to Czech Prime Minister Andrei Babis on Twitter, doctors are awaiting the test results of a woman, she is in isolation.
On November 25, it became known that scientists have identified a new strain of coronavirus in Botswana, South Africa and Hong Kong, which could potentially become the most dangerous.
Later it was designated by the Greek letter "omicron".
The first cases of the disease with a new strain of coronavirus have already been identified in Germany and Israel.
The chairman of the World Medical Association (WMA), Frank Ulrich Montgomery, believes that a new strain of the omicron coronavirus could become as dangerous as the Ebola virus.