List Of Countries Reported To Have New Variants of COVID-19

 

Three new COVID-19 variants have been detected in recent weeks which called for more vigilance globally being that it was said that the variant was found in the United Kingdom which could be up to 70 percent more transmissible.

None of the variants so far has been found to be more fatal.

A new variant was first detected in the United Kingdom on December 14. Named VUI-202012/01, it is thought to have first appeared in mid-September.

Referred to by some experts as the B117 traits, this has increasingly becomes the dominant strain in  many parts of the UK.

South Africa reported another new strain last week which appears to have mutated further than the UK variant.

Known as 501.V2, this variant is dominant among new confirmed infections in South Africa.

On December 24, the head of Africa’s disease control body said another COVID-19 strain, known as the P681H was identified in Nigeria.

Below are list of countries which have so far detected cases of the new strains of Covid.

Australia

Denmark

Canada

France

Italy

Japan

Jordan

Lebanon

Netherlands

Nigeria

Singapore

Spain

South Africa

South Korea

Sweden

Turkey

Norway

United Kingdom

India

Pakistan

Chile

Switzerland

United States

 

SOURCE : Al JAZEERA

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