The department said that "the data obtained is used to analyze the relevance of the diagnostic test systems used, help to identify imported cases, to assess the regional features of the genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2."
"At the moment, no strains have been identified on the territory of Russia that would be strikingly different from the known variants circulating in other countries," TASS reports.
Earlier it was reported that Norwegian doctors discovered a new type of coronavirus for the kingdom in the city of Trondheim in the north of the country.
The virologist, Professor Anatoly Altstein, in an interview with FAN, assessed the situation with COVID-19.