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A case of infection with the Corona 19 strain, which is up to 70% stronger than the new existing coronavirus infection (Corona 19), has also been confirmed in France.
According to AFP and the Reuters news agency on the 25th (local time), the French Health Ministry said that “a man who returned from living in London, UK was confirmed to be infected.” This Frenchman was examined two days after returning from London on the 19th and is currently in quarantine.
On the 24th of the previous day, a variant of the Corona 19 infection occurred in Germany. The German Health Ministry in Baden-Wurttemberg said a woman who recently arrived from London, UK, was confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus strain. Corona 19, the first variant to first appear in south-east England, in late September, was found to be up to 70% stronger than the existing virus.
As the number of corona 19 infection cases outside the UK increases, there are concerns that the UK entry ban is too late. With Corona 19 spreading in the UK previously, around 50 countries, including Italy and Germany, as well as Hong Kong, Iran and Israel, stopped flights, trains and freight transport from the UK and took self-quarantine measures against those who recently visited the UK. Etc. In the US, Delta Air Lines, Virgin Atlantic, and British Airways have taken various steps to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 variant, such as requiring that only passengers who have tested negative for Corona 19 board flights to New York at the request of the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo. However, the Corona 19 variant has already been confirmed in Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia.
As the spread of the Corona 19 variant continued and questions arose about the efficacy of the vaccine, Pfizer, Bioentech and Moderna began to verify the efficacy of their own vaccine against the variant of the virus. Pfizer said it is collecting data by taking blood samples from people with COVID-19 immunity to verify the vaccine’s immune response to the variant virus. Ur Shahin, CEO of Bioentech, who co-developed the vaccine with Pfizer, also told a news conference: “Scientifically, it is likely that the immune response of this vaccine acts on the virus strain. He added that the study and the Data collection will take approximately two weeks to obtain definitive results. Executive Director Shahin explained that in the case of a variant of the virus, only 9 of the 1,270 amino acids have been mutated. “It means that 99% of the protein is still the same. “” Technically, we can provide a new vaccine in six weeks, “he emphasized.
Modena has also started testing a virus variant. According to Forbes, based on data available to date in the statement, Modena said: “The immunity created by Modena or vaccines will protect against a recent strain of virus in the UK.” “Additional over the next few weeks to confirm this expectation. We plan to conduct an experiment.”
Dr. Assisi Ja, dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University, told CNN that he hopes the two vaccines will be effective against the corona strain. “We are beginning to find data that some monoclonal antibodies continue to work against this new strain,” he said, “so we hope that the vaccine will continue to be effective.”
/ Kim Yeon Haja [email protected]
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