Pharmaceutical Magazine – The Indonesian government has begun to prohibit foreign citizens (WNA) from entering Indonesian territory for 14 days from January 3, 2020. This is because a number of countries have reported cases of new mutations from the Corona virus. The new mutation from the Corona virus is allegedly more dangerous than the old virus.
Padjadjaran University Microbiologist Dr. Mia Miranti, MP, said that the Corona virus is included in the RNA virus group. RNA is a type of nucleic acid which characterizes viruses as living things.
The results of research in several scientific journals state that the RNA virus group is prone to mutations. When the Corona virus infects a host body, the RNA will replicate or reproduce.
“There is no replication of this virus that does not cause disease in its host, because it will take over the host cell’s working system for the reproduction process,” said Mia as quoted from the Unpad website, Monday (28/12).
Regarding Covid-19, Mia said that the Corona virus had actually mutated. Mutations are carried out to adapt to the host cell. Since from Wuhan, China, the Corona virus has mutated so that it can survive in a temperature range of 5 – 10 degrees Celsius.
When it spread to Iran and the Middle East region, Mia estimates that the virus has undergone a mutation back which allows it to withstand the heat.
The Corona virus in Indonesia itself has undergone a mutation. A report from the Eijkman Institute some time ago found that the Corona virus in Indonesia had strain which is different from the virus in Wuhan.
“It’s just that the mutation process is not as exciting as it is now in England,” he said.
The lecturer at the Biology Study Program at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences said that there is a possibility that the mutation process in the UK is influenced by several factors, so the possibility of infection is higher. In other words, the mutation of a virus can be much more dangerous if it is influenced by a number of factors.
Because the mutation of each virus is influenced by its host factor, Mia believes that vaccine development should be adjusted to the result of the virus mutation. “The Covid-19 vaccine in Indonesia should be adapted to the character of the virus in Indonesia,” he concluded.
Source:
Why Can Corona Virus Mutate? This is the explanation https://www.unpad.ac.id/2020/12/mengapa-virus-corona-bisa-bermutation-ini-penjelasnya/
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