With Ukraine recording its first infection with new highly contagious coronavirus strain, the government decided last night not to suspend flights between Ukraine and Britain

With Ukraine recording its first infection with new highly contagious coronavirus strain, the government decided last night not to suspend flights between Ukraine and Britain. First identified in Britain on December 14, the new strain already has been identified in Australia, Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands. Ukrainian infectious disease specialist Viktor Petrov told Ukraina 24 TV yesterday that a patient, ‘Mykola’, a labor migrant shuttling between Zakarpattia and the Czech Republic, “had this new variant identified by Britain.”