Health
‘Supercharged’ Covid mutation was spotted in Brazil last spring – The Telegraph
The new strain can be traced to South America eight months ago and a ‘constellation’ of changes may have caused its increased infectivity
Both the British and South African variants share the N501Y mutation, but appear to have evolved independently of one another.
The variant was first identified in Nelson Mandela Bay, the region that includes Port Elizabeth, before rapidly spreading through the rest of Eastern Cape province and to Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. At a World Health Organisation meeting early this month, scientists reported that the South African variant accounted for 80-90 per cent of newly identified infections, driving…
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