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Japan finds cases of new virus variant – PerthNow
More than 90 cases of a new coronavirus variant have been found in Japan, heath authorities say.
Japanese health authorities have found more than 90 cases of a new variant of the COVID-19 virus, the government’s chief spokesman says.
The mutant variant, known as E484K, has been found in 91 cases in the Kanto area of eastern Japan and in 2 cases at airports, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobo Kato told reporters on Friday.
The variant is believed to have come from overseas but is different from those that originated in Britain and South Africa, according to an earlier report by the Mainichi newspaper…
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