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The new “British” strain of coronavirus turned out not to be completely new, it was clear in an interview with Professor Radka Argirova, virologist and president of the Society of Virologists before Bulgarian National Radio.
“This is not a new strain, it is described in the medical literature at the end of March,” explained Professor Argirova. He clarified that it is a mutation of the original virus, which came from Wuhan, which has been circulating for a long time.
“So far 13,000 mutations have been described, but only this one has remained stable,” said the virologist.
Professor Argirova insisted that the vaccines developed against Covid-19 are also effective against this mutation, which is more easily transmitted and is more infectious than the original strain. It is characterized by infecting younger people and is a little more serious than the previous one.
According to the virologist, this change in the coronavirus does not affect the sequence (amino acid sequence – br), which is the immunogen of the “Pfizer” and “Biontech” vaccine. “The infection boom of many people in Western Europe is of this type of virus, now it has reached the UK. This is not new for Europe,” he said, adding that the infection boom in October and November in Bulgaria due to this mutation in the coronavirus.
The virologist insisted that a person who had suffered from Covid-19 was not at risk of contracting the new mutation in the virus.
