from clovis points spots as new quarantine rules that come into force. a very good morning to you it's 9 am here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me nicky her and our top story russian scientists have developed the world's 1st test for the new corona virus strain 1st detected in britain they knew a deadly a variant has led to dozens of countries hunkering down and shutting their doors to travel as but there may now be light at the end of the tunnel. well developed in the new test in system we used the same approach as we did for the main test it is the same express method where you need about an hour to receive just results which is much faster than the classic p.c. our testing we don't try to replace our main test it is not a method for mass diagnostics it's a tool for e.p.d. milledge ical surveillance to control the spread of new strains however while developing the new test in system we kept in mind that if we need to detect other strains we could do it in a short period of time. well the variant has already been found in dozens o

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