A new variant of COVID-19 has been confirmed in South Africa, according to The National Institute for Communicable Diseases.
BREAKING NEWS: The National Institute for Communicable Diseases has confirmed the emergence of a new #COVID19 variant in South Africa. #Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/D9Umir9Y7M
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As IOL reports, experts are expressing concerns, but have also mentioned that this situation was inevitable.
“It is worrying that such a variant has occurred, but I think it is also inevitable in a way that we are going to see this,” said Professor Alex van den Heever of the Wits School of Governance to the publication.
“The real question is whether past variants and vaccines will still protect us against this particular variant. And I haven’t really seen any analysis of that yet,” he said.
According to EWN, this variant is being dubbed a ‘super variant’, meaning it has high mutation numbers.
It is called Variant B.1.1.529 and has also been found in Botswana and Hong Kong.
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