In the last few days, a British strain of coronavirus was detected in our country, in Sarajevo.

This was confirmed by the head of the laboratory and prof. dr. Teufik Goletić from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, at the press conference of the Federal Crisis Staff of the Ministry of Health.

Namely, a foreign citizen who was staying in Sarajevo as a tourist was infected with British strain of coronavirus. He was reported as an asymptomatic case, but a PCR test for coronavirus confirmed the presence of the virus.

Sequencing of the virus was conducted at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Sarajevo, and a strain that has not been registered in B&H so far has been established.

23 samples were sequenced, 20 of them successfully, and one of them is the British strain, said, among other things, Goletić.

This strain has been confirmed in 75 countries so far, and South African in 35 countries. Also, the British strain of coronavirus has minimal impact on vaccines produced to date.