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Researchers report a new SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern in Uganda – News-Medical.Net

An interdisciplinary research team from Uganda and the UK report the emergence and spread of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant of the A lineage with multiple protein changes…

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The etiological agent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Since then, the virus has infected more than 107 million people worldwide and caused over 2.4 million deaths. Due to its high transmissibility, it has been difficult to contain the virus in an epidemic region.
Towards the latter part of 2020, a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 (lineage B.1.1.7) emerged in England and another…

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