English By Lenny Ruvaga Share on Facebook Print this page NAIROBI - Kenyan scientists have raised an alarm on a coronavirus variant they say differs from the one spreading in South Africa and Britain.
About 10 investigators from the Kenya Medical Research Institute, or KEMRI, discovered the mutation of the virus responsible for the COVID-19 disease.
Charles Agoti, a principal investigator and researcher, says that the variant unique to Kenya was detected in a batch of samples taken from Taita Taveta county, located in the southeastern part of the country.
“Our interpretation is that because in this one place in Kenya we were seeing, it represents the majority of the sequenced samples; it does imply that actually, it could if it has intrinsic properties, be more transmissible, Agoti said. It could result in an increase in the number of cases locally.”
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Covid: How worrying are the UK, South Africa, and Brazil coronavirus variants?
BBC
16th January, 2021 11:33:02
New variants of coronavirus are emerging that are more infectious than the original one that started the pandemic.
Scientists are urgently studying these mutated versions to understand what threat they pose.
What are these new variants?
Experts concerns currently focus on a small number of new variants of coronavirus:
A UK variant that has become dominant in much of Britain and has spread to more than 50 other countries
A South Africa variant that has also been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK