Another mutant virus has been found in Japan, unlike those from the UK or South Africa. It was confirmed by 4 people who arrived from Brazil. In addition, studies have shown that a mutant virus with strong infectivity can overtake existing coronavirus infections in a few months.
Correspondent Yoon Seol-young reports.
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The mutant virus was found in four men and women who arrived from Brazil.
Everyone in their teens to 40s has a history of staying in the northern Brazilian state of Amazonas.
It is different from the mutant virus that has been identified in Britain and South Africa so far.
As a result, only 34 people have been confirmed to be infected with the mutant virus.
However, some were unable to be filtered at the airport, and infection was later confirmed.
It is not known how much the infection has spread in the meantime.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have published a simulation that shows that mutant viruses with strong transmission power spread the infection explosively in months, even in small numbers.
If there are 300 people infected with the existing Corona 19 virus and 100 people infected with the mutant virus, the number of people infected with the mutant virus will reverse the number of people infected with the virus after two months.
“The infection could spread faster than the simulation results,” the researchers feared.
This is because, although an emergency has been declared, contact between people has not decreased.
Compared to the first emergency declaration in April last year, you can see that there are many people on the street.
In the last week, 43,000 people were newly infected.
The number of ambulances wandering through three or more hospitals and wasting more than 30 minutes on the road has increased by 50% in a month.
The Japanese government has decided to declare an additional emergency in three areas near Osaka.
(Video Design: Eunsol Oh / Video Graphics: Jihye Kim)
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