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Brazil COVID variant may spread more easily or reinfect people: report – Business Insider
The P.1 variant could be between 1.4 and 2.2 times more transmissible than other variants, and may evade natural immunity, scientists said.
The coronavirus variant first found in Brazil may be more transmissible or may reinfect people who’ve already had the virus, scientists said in a report.
The variant has already spread to almost 30 countries.
The variant, known as P.1, could be between 1.4 and 2.2 times more transmissible than other variants, researchers from the University of São Paulo, Imperial College London, and the University of Oxford said.
Their research in the Brazilian city of Manaus suggested that the variant also evaded…
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