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South African mutation in kindergarten: more than 20 cases

The cluster around a kindergarten in St. Johann is expanding. 21 new infections had been reported by Sunday. It is probably the South African mutation of the coronavirus.


SN/Land Salzburg / Franz Neumayr

At the beginning of next week it should be possible to enter discovered coronavirus mutations into the epidemiological reporting system.

The mutations of the corona virus are also spreading in Salzburg. Specifically, there is a high probability that the South African mutation is circulating in a kindergarten in St. Johann and the British one in a kindergarten in Wals-Siezenheim.

Both variants are significantly more contagious than before. With the South African mutation, the incubation period could also be significantly longer. An infection could be three weeks ago instead of ten days as before.

In St. Johann as many people as possible were welcomed into the …

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