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In UK have been identified An’altra variant of the coronavirus from South Africa, even more contagious than the one that started scaring Europe a few days ago. This was announced by the British Health Minister, Matt Hancock, as reported for several British months.
The new strain differs from the British one, but just as terrifying as it is in able to spread even faster. The British government has also decided to confront this new threat further toughen restrictive measures, extending the confinement to other areas of the country. Among the hypotheses is to insert in the Level 4ie the maximum level of restrictions, including Sussex, parts of the Midlands and the North of England.
United Kingdom, another more contagious variant of South Africa found
The alert continues to grow in the United Kingdom after the discovery of another variant of the coronavirus even more contagious than the last. Minister Hancock announced that two people in his country tested positive for a strain of Covid from South Africa, specifying that there are two “Contacts of cases that have traveled from South Africa in recent weeks”, currently both in solitary confinement.
Hancock sounds the alarm saying that “This new variant it’s very disturbing because it is even more transmittable and seems to have changed more than the new variant discovered in the UK“.
The government has decided to toughen containment measures against those who have traveled to South Africa in the last two weeks by imposing a forced quarantine and specifying that “These measures are temporary as we are further investigating this new strain which will be analyzed shortly at Porton Down.”.
The news has also alerted other countries and Germany, Switzerland, Israel, Sudan, Mauritius, Turkey and El Salvador have already decided suspend flights arriving from South Africa.
What do we know about the South African strain?
Over the course of last summer, the South Africa was the Most affected country in Africa, reaching 13,000 daily cases. Now this new variant, known as 501.V2, is causing a resurgence of the virus, causing 80 to 90 percent of new cases and generating a second violent wave.
South Africa has recorded around 950,000 cases and around 25,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic. Now it faces a second violent wave that travels at a rate of around 10,000 new infections every day. The South African Minister of Health is convinced that the cause of the second wave in the country is caused precisely by this new strain.
However, experts say it is too early to make a statement on one for now. higher mortality linked to this new variant. Dr. John Nkengasong, director of the African Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Addis Ababa also told the Telegraph that at this moment “we still don’t have enough data to determine if the new strain could be more contagious to children and young adults “.
