“Health”: the new strain of Corona is present in Egypt and is under observation

Dr Muhammad Al-Nadi, a member of the scientific committee to confront Corona at the Health Ministry, said that the new strain of the virus that has spread in Britain has been around for a long time, is spreading in Africa and is likely that exists in Egypt, and he said, “If we do a study, we will find this strain in Egypt because it is spreading so fast.” .

Added during a telephone interview with the media, Lamis Al-Hadidi, host of the “Last Word” program, which is shown on the “ON” screen, saying: “If we did a genetic study, we will find that it is also present in Egypt, and For some time we have said that the disease has become more virulent in spread but not at the level of The risk and, therefore, the number of more patients and an increase in deaths is not due to the severity of the disease, but because the number is proportional and proportional among those infected in a wider sector.

He continued: “I think the new strain is present in Egypt and this is under observation, and the study is not. We will not do a study, but we look at it by looking at patients and their families in the same place and the speed of spread are indicators. which may indicate the presence of the strain in Egypt. “

He added: “The new strain has been around for some time, and the disease is known to have become capable of spreading further, and this is what happened in Britain, where the number of infected has risen dramatically, to record at a day more than 27 thousand cases and about 500 deaths “.