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Vaccine deliveries are only raising hopes that the pandemic will end, but the alarms about two different crown mutations spreading across the world are concerning.
The crown mutation 501.V2 was first identified in South Africa’s Nelson Mandela Bay and then spread rapidly.
Now the version dominates the spread of the infection in the country and causes between 80 and 90 percent of total crown drops.
At the same time, a crown mutation has already occurred in the UK. The variants have certain similarities, but analysis shows that they have arisen independently of each other.
Fear: mutations spread
One thing the new virus strains have in common is infectivity. Early studies indicate that both can be much more contagious than the coronavirus we’ve become accustomed to.
The British mutation known as VUI 202012/01 may be 70 percent more contagious than before, the researchers warn.
Researchers are now warning about how new infectious mutations affect healthcare. Professor Tulio de Oliveira, who has investigated the genetic mutations of the virus in South Africa, says that in the long run it risks leading to even more deaths.
“What happens when the number grows so fast is that medical care is quickly overwhelmed,” he told Reuters.
– What happens next is that we have a big nail of increased mortality.
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Now the outside world fears that the virus strains will spread. The British mutation has already been confirmed in Denmark and is “out of control”, according to the country’s health minister. During Christmas day and the second day, a case was also found in France and also in Ireland. Japan has also confirmed that five cases have been found and it is already clear that Italy and the Netherlands also have cases.
The South African variant has so far only been confirmed in Australia and the UK.
Analysis of Sweden
Several countries detain travelers from places where the British mutation in particular is rampant. Sweden has stopped all flights from the UK and does not have direct flights from South Africa either.
So far, there have been no confirmed cases of the British mutation in Sweden, but both the government and the Public Health Agency believe that the form of the virus may well be present in the country.
At the same time, the Swedish Public Health Agency is also analyzing hundreds of corona tests, looking for the British mutation.
– There are a few hundred that are in the process of analysis during the Christmas and New Years holidays. And it also broadens this by looking back at the database, the agency’s press secretary Sara Rörbecker previously said.
