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No, unless you know a lot about ros you can not easily use a virtual environment.

If you are using the binary ros repo for ros packages, exactly one python version is supported (python 3.8.10 for noetic.) Most of the ros python code is put in /opt/ros/, but a few standard python packages may be installed to /usr/lib/python3.8/.

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