B1.159: worrying variant of coronavirus25 Nov 2021 17:20
And how many flights will arrive today, tomorrow etc. But rich folks need to be able to go spend time in the sun in Cape Town.
'Anew variant of SARS-CoV-2, currently only identified as B1.159, has been identified by a team of South African scientists as the driver behind a huge and sudden spike in infections in Gauteng.
“You need to know the enemy that you are fighting,” one of the leading experts in the team, Professor Tulio de Oliveira, said.
He said that while they are still unsure about the impact some of the mutations will have, they do know some of them and are concerned that this variant will be more transmissible and possibly better at evading some aspects of the body’s immune response.
Working as a collaborative network of scientists they were going as fast as they could to find out what the country was facing.
Minister of Health Dr Joe Phaahla said the number of positive cases of coronavirus infections has been rising over the past seven to 10 days, with “more of an exponential rise” over the past few days.
Eight days ago there were 273 new infections in the country. It doubled the next day and on Wednesday, 24 November there were more than 1,000.
Eighty percent of these cases, according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), are found in Gauteng, with the first evidence of a rise in infections seen in Tshwane metro but spreading to other parts of Gauteng, Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni.'
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-11-25-worrying-variant-of-coronavirus-with-many-unknown-mutations-driving-resurgence-of-infections-in-gauteng/
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