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As the global COVID-19 epidemic continues to warm recently, worrying new developments have emerged today. Today a new variant of the virus has been discovered in the United Kingdom (24), originating from South Africa and more contagious, which has allowed South Africa to go from 3,000 new cases a day to 9,500 cases a day. The British government urgently imposed a travel ban on South Africa and asked people who have been to South Africa in the past two weeks to isolate themselves.
The UK has just announced the discovery of a variant of the new corona virus, which has increased its infectivity by 70%. Unexpectedly, just a few days later, the development of the epidemic has worsened. British Health Secretary Matt Hancock (Matt Hancock) held a press conference today to confirm that a new, more contagious variant of the virus has been discovered in the UK, and that the two infected cases have travel histories to South Africa. Hancock said the newly discovered mutant virus is “very concerning” because, in addition to being equally more infectious, it is “more mutated” than the new mutant virus discovered in the UK.
According to the “Dailymail” report, the new variant of the South African virus called “501.V2” has triggered the second wave of the epidemic in South Africa. From less than 3,000 daily diagnoses in South Africa in early December, it has evolved to more than Since 9,500.
What is even more concerning is that the newer variant of the virus in South Africa may be more infectious to young people than other variants of the virus. Doctors have found that more and more young patients are infected and the new variant of the virus is highly likely to contribute to the second wave of the epidemic in South Africa. South Africa’s Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said the new variant of the virus appears to spread more rapidly, and it is not yet known whether it will exacerbate the disease and invalidate the vaccine.
The report noted that scientists first discovered this new virus in mid-October. It may have spread to further afield, but many countries, especially African countries, did not examine virus samples in detail, such as the UK and South Africa. Currently, there are four weekly flights from Cape Town (South Africa) to London, and four flights from Johannesburg. This shows that from the beginning of November there may be at least 50 flights from South Africa to the UK. Thousands of people enter the UK and the UK does not need to implement border testing. Currently, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, Israel and the Republic of Mauritius have banned South African passenger planes to curb the spread of the virus.
Professor Susan Hopkins from the Public Health Service of England (PHE) said she is still studying the novel virus from South Africa and is confident that if the travel ban and home quarantine are implemented, the spread of the new virus will be effectively controlled. .
According to the “Daily Mail”, the UK has added 39,237 new confirmed cases of new corona in the last 24 hours, which is the highest number since the start of the pandemic. There were also 744 new deaths from the new crown today, a 22% increase from last week and the highest number of deaths since April 29.
Hancock announced today that beginning on the 26th, more areas will be raised to epidemic alert level 4, including Sussex, Oxfordshire, Suffolk and Norfolk in England. Norfolk and Cambridgeshire are expected to affect more than 6 million people. A total of 24 million people in the UK have been affected by the level 4 alert, representing approximately 43% of the total population of England.
(Zhongshi News Network)
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