"Yes, of course, we know [the first carrier], he emerged here literally on March 1, and by March 17 we already had 100 cases. Now we are already talking about [the person] who was already disseminating the infection," Popova said in an appearance on the Rossiya 1 TV channel.
Popova noted, however, that Russia's first three confirmed cases that were imported from China had not triggered the dissemination of the infection.