The new strain, classified by the WHO as a 'variant of concern,' is blamed for a surge of cases in South Africa and has sparked fears over its high number of mutations.
and other countries announced they were restricting travel from the African continent.
The new strain, classified by the WHO as a"variant of concern," is blamed for a surge of cases in South Africa and has sparked fears over its high number of mutations, which make it potentially more transmissible and resistant to vaccines. “We don't know very much about this yet,” Maria Van Kerkhove, an infectious disease epidemiologist and the WHO’s Covid-19 technical lead said in a
. “What we do know is that this variant has a large number of mutations. The concern is that when you have so many mutations it can have an impact on how the virus behaves.”
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