The ministry said that "the total number of mutations that are collectively identified in the sequenced genomes of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is many thousands, but only a few of them have been fixed and are stably inherited."
The report says that at the moment "there are about 22 such single mutations."
"It is worth noting that these mutations occurred in January - March 2020, and later than these dates, mutations that have become widespread were not detected in the virus genome," RIA Novosti reported.
Rospotrebnadzor reported that the analysis of the variability of the coronavirus genome shows that the most stable change is the appearance of two single mutations - at the moment, more than 93% of the studied samples have this pair of substitutions.
The press service reported that in Russia about 99% of the samples studied have this pair of mutations.
It is noted that “a detailed comparison of the genomes of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Russia and foreign countries confirms that it is the variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus strains circulating in Western Europe, which for the most part already had the P314L mutation (ORF1b gene) and D614G (gene S), in March and April 2020 were massively imported to Russia. "
Earlier, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova called the situation with the coronavirus in Russia stable.
Virologist, Doctor of Medical Sciences Anatoly Altstein, in an interview with the NSN, spoke about possible options for the development of the situation with COVID-19.