First three cases of the new British Covid-19 variant detected in Croatia

The genetic sequencing which identified the strain was done by Zagreb's Hospital for Infectious Diseases Fran Mihaljevic. Ivan-Christian Kurolt, a researcher at the hospital, said that the detected mutations were defined by multiple spike protein mutations: HV69/70 deletion and Y144, N501Y, A570D, P681H and T716I deletion.

The samples with the detected mutations were taken from a 50-year-old man, a three-year-old child, both from Zagreb, and from a 34-year-old man from the eastern Slavonski Brod-Posavina County.