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Our first report is from our health correspondent katharine da costa. the correspondent katharine da costa. emergence of a complex the emergence of a new highly complex variant in southern africa has sounded alarm bells around the world. so far most cases have been identified in one province of south africa where it appears the variant may be driving a new wave of infection. may be driving a new wave of infection-— may be driving a new wave of infection. . , ., ., i, , , ., , infection. early ...

To find out if the current vaccines can fight this new variant off. >> reporter: a new variant spreading quickly. u.s. health authorities in contact with officials there. >> we want to find out scientist to scientist exactly what is going on. seeing that its a bid more widespread in south africa than originally felt. >> reporter: researcher in south africa say theres likely reason to be worried. they say this variant has more than 30 mutations in the spike protein. thats the part of the virus th...

Imposed show just how seriously this variant is being taken. between 500 and 700 travellers arrive in the uk from south africa every day. thats where most of the cases have so far been identified and where it appears the variant may be driving a new wave of infection. it may be more transmissible than the delta variant. and the vaccines that we currently have may be less effective against it. now, to be clear, we have not detected any of this new variant in the uk at this point in time, but weve...

To enter human cells. we havent got evidence it is here yet. we havent identified it in our genome sequencing and we are giving results of more than 50,000 cases a week. a huge amount. but there is travel from south africa across the globe and there are many rising cases in south africa at the moment so we will need to be very aware and look very carefully at all of the data coming through. current vaccines have been designed to target the spike protein from the original wuhan strain. some of th...

From south africa every day. thats where most of the cases have so far been identified and where it appears the variant may be driving a new wave of infection. it may be more transmissible than the delta variant. and the vaccines that we currently have may be less effective against it. now, to be clear, we have not detected any of this new variant in the uk at this point in time, but weve always been clear that we will take action to protect the progress that we have made. the new variant was fo...

About a new coronavirus variant which has emerged in south africa, describing it as the worst theyve seen so far. so what do we know about the new variant? well it is early days 7 the new variant was discovered just 3 days ago genetic analysis shows it has twice the number of mutations as delta, the dominant variant worldwide, including around 30 changes to the spike protein which the virus uses to break into human cells. this makes it dramatically different from the original wuhan strain on whi...

And will undergo further study. it will take a few weeks for us to understand what impact this variant has. the new variant was only identified four days ago. genetic analysis shows it has twice the mutations of delta, the dominant variant worldwide, including 30 changes to the spike protein which the virus uses to enter human cells. we havent got evidence it is here yet. we havent identified it in our sequencing and we are giving results of more than 50,000 cases a week. a huge amount. but ther...

Travellers arrive in the uk from south africa every day. thats where most of the cases have so far been identified and where it appears the variant may be driving a new wave of infection. it may be more transmissible than the delta variant. and the vaccines that we currently have may be less effective against it. now, to be clear, we have not detected any of this new variant in the uk at this point in time, but weve always been clear that we will take action to protect the progress that we have ...

Early analysis show this variant has a large number of mutations that require and will undergo further study. it will take a few weeks for us to understand what impact this variant has. the new variant was only identified four days ago. genetic analysis shows it has twice the mutations of delta, the dominant variant worldwide, including 30 changes to the spike protein which the virus uses to enter human cells. we havent got evidence it is here yet. we havent identified it in our genome sequencin...

In the uk at this point in time, but weve always been clear that we will take action to protect the progress that we have made. the new variant was formally identified only three days ago. genetic analysis shows it has twice the number of mutations as delta, the dominant variant worldwide, including around 30 changes to the spike protein which the virus uses to break into human cells. this makes it dramatically different from the original wuhan strain, on which all current vaccines are based. bu...