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"The variant is now tagged as B.1.1.529.

Over the past 48 hours, health officials spotted the new variant as it spurred an increase in infections around Johannesburg."

“This variant did surprise us — it has a big jump in evolution, many more mutations than we expected, especially after a very severe third wave of Delta,” said Tulio de Oliveira, director of the KwaZulu-Natal Research and Innovation Sequencing Platform, according to a report in The New York Times."

“The sequence of this variant, currently called B.1.1.529, was first uploaded by Hong Kong from a case of someone traveling from South Africa,” the British health minister, Sajid Javid, said. “The UK was the first country to identify the potential threat of this new variant and to alert international partners. Further cases have been identified in South Africa and in Botswana, and it is highly likely that it has now spread to other countries.”

https://endpts.com/new-coronavirus-mutation-takes-flight-around-the-globe-as-health-officials-scramble-to-mount-new-defenses/