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After some countries in the region, Indonesia also found that the new strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has a rate 10 times higher than the previous one, causing the number of Covid-19 cases in this country to increase dramatically.
AFP The aforementioned deputy director of the Indonesian Institute of Molecular Biology Herawati Sudoyo said that the medical community in this country detected the D614G mutation of the Covid-19 SARS-CoV-2 virus after analyzing the test samples collected by the institute. Cross. This strain has spread 10 times faster than the virus detected in Wuhan, China, but less virulent.
The variation of the D614G strain means that the D614 strain now becomes G614. Previously, Malaysia, the Philippines also discovered this strain. Paul Tambyah, senior adviser at the National University of Singapore, said evidence that the rapid rise of the D614G strain in some parts of the world coincides with the decline in the number of deaths from Covid-19. .
However, Mr. Sudoyo said that more research is still needed to determine if this is the cause of the recent increase in the number of new Covid-19 cases in Indonesia.
The Indonesian Ministry of Health announced that it registered about 2,900 new cases on August 30, a number less than the number of more than 3,300 cases the day before, but higher than the average of the previous month. To date, Indonesia has recorded a total of more than 172,000 Covid-19 cases, with 4,300 deaths, including more than 100 doctors.
Epidemiologist Syahrizal Syarif from the Indonesian National University warned that Indonesians should remain alert to the Covid-19 pandemic because his analytical model showed that the number of Covid-19 cases in the country could increase. 500,000 cases by the end of this year. Indonesia is one of the Covid-19 hot spots in Southeast Asia. The increase in the number of new cases raises concerns that the healthcare system here will be overloaded.
The Covid-19 pandemic started in Wuhan, China, and quickly grew into a global pandemic. According to statistics from AFPAs of August 30, the global number of Covid-19 cases exceeded 25 million, of which around 850,000 died. Since mid-July, there will be 1 million more people with Covid-19 around the world every four days.
India on August 30 registered more than 80,000 cases of Covid-19 in 24 hours, breaking all records since the outbreak of the pandemic. India is the third most affected country in the world by Covid-19, behind only the US and Brazil, with more than 3.6 million people infected with Covid-19, of which more than 63,000 have died. The United States recorded more than 6 million cases, of which more than 187,000 people died.
Minh Phuong
According to the AFP
