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It has been announced that there is a more contagious mutation of the coronavirus in Indonesia.
In Indonesia, 2,858 new cases of coronavirus were detected in the last 24 hours. The day before, 3 thousand 308 new cases were detected. With the latest jump in cases, the total number of coronavirus cases across the country amounted to 172 thousand 53. The total loss of life was 7 thousand 343.
D614G: more contagious but less deadly
Herawati Sudoyo, vice president of the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, located in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, told Reuters that when the genetic sequence was examined, there was a more contagious but less deadly mutation from the coronavirus. The new mutation was named D614G.
The genetic sequence in question was also determined by the WHO in Europe and America in February.
University of Indonesia epidemiologist Sasharizal Syarif warned Indonesians. Syarif claimed that 500,000 cases could be seen before the end of the year.
It was expected …
Scientists claim that from the beginning of the epidemic, the new type of coronavirus (Covid-19) will mutate to be less deadly but more contagious. It is claimed that viruses tend to infect other organisms by keeping the organism in which they are alive to survive.
Speaking to Halktv.com.tr in March, geneticist Çağhan Kızıl shared the following information about the virus mutation:
The nextstrain.org website can track the evolution of pathogens in real time. In particular, there is data analysis on the new type of coronavirus. Here is a graph showing changes in genetic makeup historically.
Think of it this way, for example, the virus has 1000 nucleotides, which also have a structure. As time goes by, for example when we move to Italy, 2 of them change. After that, all of Italy are from generation. The virus that reaches the United States is different. Here we understand that the virus that came out of China, all came out of Wuhan, China, is mutating within humans. This virus has entered Europe twice, once from Italy and once from France. She entered America from one place. These changes are happening, this is the structure of the virus, but it is not known whether these mutations cause a change in the infection effect and the lethal effect of the virus, but it is not believed to occur.
The virus, which we call the functional region, has a structure called ‘protein S’ to enter the cell. The location that this S protein produces from its genome does not change. There is only one change there, it changes to S and L. This means amino acids. It is not good that viruses are evolutionarily stronger. The reason is that if the virus is strong, it kills the organism it enters. In this case, the virus cannot spread. So, evolutionary selection goes through weak viruses. S is a slightly weaker virus and most of the time we already see S right now. But this definitely does not depend on the breed. It has been tested in two or three different studies. Like influenza (flu), it mutates. Once you get the flu vaccine for one year, the same vaccine may not protect you the following year because the virus may have changed.
Perhaps the coronavirus is like that. Ebola was stronger than MERS and MERS than SARS. The Ebola virus was more deadly, with a death rate of more than 70 percent. Therefore, it could infect far fewer people. SARS, on the other hand, was the virus with the lowest mortality rate among these three and therefore the most widespread virus. SARS has a death rate of 4 to 6 percent in cases with closed cases, and when we look at influenza, the rate is 0.16 percent. So SARS almost 50 times more deadly than influenza.
