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Around south africa? will it take to the world stage? here's what we know so far. it doesn't even have a name yet, one of those greek letters, because it's not officially a variant of concern or interest, so it's called b.1.1.529. the problem is it more than 30 mutations in the spike protein. that's what researchers say. it's an important part of the virus, how it does its work to get into our cells. the vaccine is designed to work on the spike protein. if there are too many variations in that protein in too many places, that could be bad news for the vaccine. the uk, japan, germany and other ...

Whether they will stop travelers coming from the african continent. the united kingdom reinstated its red list for most of southern africa out of an abundance of caution, calling it temporary, but it could take several weeks for scientists to figure out just how dangerous this variant is. now, the move has been criticized by the south african government, calling it hasty, saying more information is needed. the africa cdc also saying that bans are not helpful and that tracing and testing is more effective in stopping any variant of concern as they emerge. one w.h.o. official told me a short tim...

The past those kind of vaccine escape variants have not really translated into major global path os gens. we have seen this before, but with the beta variant, with the lambda variant, those never really took off. so there's nothing intrinsic in the spike protein that would account for global spread. the two worst ones, the alpha, that arose out of theuu uk, and the delta variant that rose out of an unvaccinated population in india, was because of amino acid substitution that caused it to be a much more highly transm transmissible. so the most important question for this weekend and next few da...

The beta variant, the pace with which they took over in south africa so they say that is of concern but they are busy in the laboratory down near durban right now trying to work out the implications of these multiple concerning mutations and whether or not, as you said earlier, and as fergus said, whether or not they will allow this new variant to somehow escape the defence mechanisms that we have in our bodies either from mechanisms that we have in our bodies eitherfrom prior mechanisms that we have in our bodies either from prior infections orfrom vaccinations. but bodies either from prior i...

The Department of Health on Monday reported 21 new cases of the more contagious Delta variant, bringing the total Delta cases in the country to 3,387.