It is not yet known if it is more contagious than before.

Coronavirus – the second year

It has been more than a year since the Chinese authorities informed the WHO of the emergence of a new, rapidly spreading virus. Since then, there has hardly been a person in the world who has not heard the term Covid-19, and more and more people are mourning a family member or friend with whom the new disease ended while stocks collapsed in weeks and our entire lives were rewritten. by the epidemic. By now, the vaccines have been completed, which in turn raises not only hope, but again many questions, while not only stopping the virus, but also threatening another mutation. You will find the details of this fight in our series of articles.

Another mutation in the coronavirus has also been released in Norway, it is not yet known whether the B.1.525 variant is more contagious than previous versions, Norwegian public service television NRK said on Thursday.

In the last day, ten people in the Scandinavian country have been infected with another variant of the virus. So far it has been shown in the bodies of about thirty people in the United States, Great Britain, and Denmark, respectively.

“We don’t know if it’s more contagious yet, but it could be easy,” said Line Vold, director of the Norwegian Institute of Health.

Experts say the new variant bears similarities to mutations that were first seen in South Africa and Great Britain, respectively. So far, more than 700 people in Norway have been infected with the South African and British variants.

Vold said that, along with the other mutations, the spread of the new variant is also being monitored. He added that it would be too early to know if it had been brought from abroad.

According to him, it is quite natural for new mutations to appear in the virus, since the specificity of the pathogen is that it changes over time.

In Norway, with a population of 5.4 million, 67,498 people have so far been identified, of whom 607 have died from the disease.



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