South Africa also found a mutant virus different from the UK

-In Africa, South Africa also imposed an entry ban on suspicion that a new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) mutant virus similar to the UK was found last weekend, but the investigation revealed that it was another variation from the mutant virus found in the UK. DW) reported on the 21st (local time).

South African health officials warned that despite being different from the mutant virus in the UK, the mutant virus is also causing a new spread of Corona 19 in South Africa, with new infections, hospitalizations, and deaths in South Africa.

Health officials added that they are studying whether the Corona 19 vaccine developed so far can protect people from this new mutant virus.

DW, meanwhile, cited the words of British health expert John Campbell, saying that the mutant virus found in the UK was only recently reported, but it was already first confirmed in Kent, UK at the end of September, and that it is likely to have spread to other European countries. According to the European Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC), new cases of mutant virus infection have already been found in Iceland, Denmark and the Netherlands, and there are media reports that the mutant virus has also been confirmed in Belgium and Italy.

In this regard, Dr. Peter Kremsner of the University Hospital Tubingen in Germany said there was no reason to restrict travel to and from the UK.

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