One of the most popular news this week is about mutation discovery news corona virus COVID-19 which is more contagious. Mutations with designations D614G this was reported by the Malaysian authorities to be the most infectious of all mutations found.
“It was found to be 10 times more contagious and easily spread by individual ‘super-spreaders’,” said Malaysia’s Director General of Health, Noor Hisham Abdullah, as quoted by Antara. The Straits Times some time ago.
Pathogen expert from the biological laboratory in Wuhan, Yang Zhanqiu, said that it is actually natural for the Corona virus to mutate. The important thing to know is that not all mutations can impact research on the efficacy of drugs or vaccines.
“It is normal for a virus to mutate in different countries and even in several regions in one country, because the virus is adapting to the DNA of local residents and the environment,” Yang said. Global Times.
President of the International Society of Infectious Diseases, Paul Tambyah, also said mutations that make a virus more contagious do not necessarily make it more virulent. The Corona D614G mutation is said to be good news because the symptoms it causes can be lighter.
“Maybe it’s a good thing to have a virus that’s more contagious but less deadly,” Tambyah told Reuters.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says that until now there is no evidence that mutations cause disease COVID-19 to be more dangerous.
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