A new covid variant that was first discovered in South Africa in May and has already spread to China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mauritius, England, New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland.
The new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been discovered in South Africa and many other countries around the world which the study finds could be more easily transmitted and questionable vaccine protection.
Scientists from National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) in South Africa say that the potential variant of interest, C.1.2, was first detected in the country in May 2021.
C.1.2 has been found in China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mauritius, England, New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland since August 13.
According to the study which has not yet been evaluated and which was published on August 24 in the preprint repository MedRxiv, C.1.2 significantly mutated from C.1, one of the lines infected with SARS- CoV-2 in the early stages. years the wave dominated in South Africa.
The new variant has more mutations than other Variants of Interest (VOC) or Variants of Interest (VOI) discovered to date around the world, the researchers said.
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