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CDC issues warning on New COVID-19 variant B117 KTRK Share: "The coronavirus is doing what all viruses do, mutating as it goes," said Dr. Linda Yancey. This new variant spreads 70% faster and is extremely contagious, but it is not more deadly than the COVID-19 strain. The CDC issued a warning Friday that said this new variant could become the dominant source of infection in the U.S. by March and would likely lead to a wrenching surge in cases and deaths that would further burden overwhelmed hospitals. By Saturday, authorities in Dallas and Corpus Christi reported the first known cases of the ...

PETALING JAYA: The individual who was detected with the potentially contagious B117 Covid-19 strain from the United Kingdom has already been discharged, says Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. The Health director-general said that the 22-year-old individual who came back from the United Kingdom did not have any close contacts with anyone else as the individual had been isolated upon arrival in the country. The individual’s first test was negative, with a positive result detected in the second test, said Dr Noor Hisham. “When we found that the CT (cycle threshold) value was low, we could run...

One case of a new coronavirus strain reported in the United Kingdom to be potentially more contagious has been detected here, said the Ministry of Health (MOH).

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