Russia is ready to register a new test that can determine presence of the new UK strain of the coronavirus, Anna Popova, the head of Russia's consumer health watchdog, said on Tuesday
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 19th January, 2021) Russia is ready to register a new test that can determine presence of the new UK strain of the coronavirus, Anna Popova, the head of Russia's consumer health watchdog, said on Tuesday.
"We are ready to register a new test that can determine the new UK strain in PCR tests. This platform-based decision makes it possible to create PCR tests for all possible mutations without spending huge amounts of money on sequencing," Popova told the governmental coronavirus response council.
Apart from that, Russia is ready to register an "immunochromatographic test" for determining the virus antigen, Popova continued.
