Sanitary medical agency Santé publique France reports.
Earlier, the media reported that a new type of coronavirus was found in the south of France.
It contains 46 mutations.
Rospotrebnadzor said that the strain of coronavirus infection COVID-19, which was detected in France, was not registered in Russia.
Immunologist Vladislav Zhemchugov, in an interview with Izvestia, commented on the data on this strain.