The British strain of coronavirus was detected in Kyiv Kharkov, Dnipro and Lviv as part of joint monitoring of the circulation of new strains of SARS-CoV-2, which is carried out by the pharmaceutical company Farmak JSC,

along with the the Gromashevsky Institute of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases with the participation of the Center for Public Health (CPH), Farmak reports. “As a result, the British strain SARS-CoV-2 was detected in samples from Kiev, Kharkov, Dnipro and Lvov. At present, a bioinformatic analysis of the results is being carried out to study other mutations of the virus that are unique for Ukraine,” the company said.