06:23 PM
Friday, February 12, 2021
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Agencies:
The World Health Organization announced that it had received reports about the outbreak of a new strain of the Corona epidemic in the Chinese capital, Beijing, according to what was reported by Al Sharq Channel.
And the head of the United Kingdom’s genetic monitoring program had warned that the mutated Corona strain discovered in the United Kingdom last year could invade the world.
“The new version has invaded the country,” Sharon Peacock, head of the genetic monitoring program in Britain, told the BBC, expecting it to sweep the world, in all likelihood.
And she continued: “Once we overcome it or turn into itself from being virulent, causing disease, then we can stop worrying about it .. But I think, looking to the future, we will do that for years,” expecting that this will continue beyond 10 years.
The new mutation, first identified in Bristol in southwest England, was categorized by the Advisory Group on New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Risks as a “variable of concern”.
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