"The British strain does not fundamentally differ from the Wuhan or those strains that circulated, because even 1% of the change in the genome did not occur," RIA Novosti quotes him. 

Earlier, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova announced that a test system has been created in Russia to detect the British strain of coronavirus.

It was also reported that Russia extended until February 1 the suspension of flights with the UK due to the detection of a new strain of coronavirus there.