New Covid-19 variant has scientists scurrying to investigate reinfections
Closing down the world - Covid-19 2020. Photo by Edwin Hooper on Unsplash South Africans recoiled in horror this week as it was reported that a new variant of Covid-19 has been identified which is more virulent and infection youngsters at a high rate. According to Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize the new variant is called 501.V2. “This genomics team, led by the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), has sequenced hundreds of samples from across the country since the beginning of the pandemic in March. “They noticed that a particular variant has increasingly do...
Source: health-e.org.za