In Turkey, 15 people have been diagnosed with a “British” mutation of the coronavirus, said the head of the Ministry of Health a> the republics of Fakhrettin Koca, reports RIA Novosti .
A new type of COVID-19 has been detected in recent arrivals from the UK. Departure from this country to Turkey has been temporarily suspended, the minister said.
On Friday, January 1, 1908 cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Turkey. This number is the lowest since the end of October.
On December 31, a new strain of coronavirus reached China. It is known that a mutated version of the virus was found in a 23-year-old Shanghai woman who returned from Britain. She was diagnosed with mild symptoms of COVID-19. The doctors tracked all her contacts.
A dangerous mutation of the coronavirus was first discovered in the UK in September, but it began to spread actively in December. The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the new strain could be 70 percent more contagious. The mutation affected the area of the spike protein on the surface of the coronavirus, which is responsible for attachment to cells located in the mucous membrane of the lungs and a number of other organs.