Two new strains of coronavirus are forming inside Russia

The head of the department, Anna Popova, said that as of April 16, 2021, the Siberian and

northwestern strains of coronavirus.

Moreover, later in the press service of Rospotrebnadzorthe journalists were told that this was not an exceptional case typical only for Siberia, and they assumed that it was a mutation already widespread abroad.

We have mutations that we describe inIn Russia, mutations are not yet characteristic of any strain described abroad - we see the formation of the Siberian variant, we see the formation of the northwestern variant. 

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According to her, in the Russian Federation they are also spreadingforeign variations of the virus. For example, 192 cases of infection with the British strain have now been recorded, as well as 21 with the South African variant. No other foreign mutations have been identified.

National strains have already been identified in many countries. The most infectious compared to the original and other varieties are British, South African and Brazilian.

At the same time, Anna Popova believes that the situation with the incidence of coronavirus in Russia is stabilizing.

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