Well-known Russian physician Alexander Miasnikov said that viruses were mutating in the past and will mutate in the future, and the “Wuhan” virus has mutated more than once.

“Politicians make decisions without relying on reality, but viruses continue to mutate,” the Mayasnikov news channel (Russia Today) quoted as saying, adding that the new strain has been there since last September and has in fact moved out of the British borders long ago.