14:35, 22.12.20 Ukraine 1009 Testing will be intensified in Ukraine to establish whether a new mutated coronavirus is circulating in the country. REUTERS Ukraine's Deputy Health Minister, Chief Medical Officer Viktor Liashko has said the PCR systems and the testing process will be changed by late December due to the new COVID-19 variant recorded in the UK. The UK is set to publish research on the change in primers (short strains of dna or rna targets) of the new coronavirus on December 27. "In late December, the Public Health Center will gather all manufacturers of PCR test systems, as well as suppliers, and will talk about changing primers to change our PCR systems and add a target that will spot the protein of the new virus," he said at a briefing on Tuesday.