Russia suspends flights with the UK
Russia suspends air traffic with Britain December 22 for a week. This information was reported by the operational headquarters for combating the spread of coronavirus infection.
The restrictions will take effect from 0:00 on December 22, 2020 and will be in effect for a week.
Earlier, Alexander Rumyantsev, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, president of the D. Rogachev National Medical Research Center for Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology, said that the degree of infection of the new strain of coronavirus from the UK is higher than that of the virus that is now present in Russia.
On December 14, British Health Minister Matt Hancock said that a new, mutated version of the coronavirus had been identified in the country. At that time, there were about 1,000 infections with the new strain in the south of the country.
Alexander Gorelov, Deputy Director for Research at the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor: “All RNA genomic viruses must mutate to survive and gain a foothold in the human population, and this is another mutation that is neutral and has primarily epidemiological significance in order to serve as a marker for the spread of a particular strain.”
Source: iz