New Covid Variant 'worst one we've seen so far'

A new variant has emerged in Africa that is likely to evade the immune response generated by prior infection and vaccination, so much for natural immunity and vaccination status then.
The UK is now enacting travel restrictions for six African countries , South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Eswatini and Zimbabwe.

The UKHSA says it is the "worst one we've seen so far" and has a spike protein that is "dramatically" different to the original COVID strain.

The variant also has 30 mutations - twice as many as the Delta variant - and these mutations are likely to evade the immune response generated by prior infection and vaccination.

But the good news is that B.1.1.529 can be detected with a normal PCR test.

Spike proteins are what viruses use to get into human cells, and some vaccines work by training the body to recognise the spikes and neutralise them.

Mutations on the spike could therefore potentially prove problematic.

But with only a handful of recorded cases - three in Botswana, around 53 in South Africa and one in Hong Kong from someone who had travelled from South Africa - scientists are hopeful it can be contained.
news.sky.com...

Covid , the gift that just keeps on giving.

a reply to: gortex

we got a thread here

www.abovetopsecret.com...



Funny how Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus - Africa-focused subsampling doesn't show that at all, right now Africa doesn't even have Lambda or MU variant active only Delta and below. Delta is the overwhelmingly active variant






even in South Africa, the Rt is going up, but so far we aren't seeing the cases and hospitalizations rise yet.




I'm not ready to freak on this yet, but Ive been watching what pops on Nextstrain every few days. Here is more about the new strain, it sounds like the same fear and worry over MU and Lambda but we will see.

a reply to: gortex

Covid , the gift that just keeps on giving.

Covid, the great data manipulate plannedemic that keeps on giving the elite their attempted global tyranny.

Fixed it for ya.

a reply to: gortex

Naturally occurring viruses lessen in severity the longer they exist in he community, bioweapons mutate to become more lethal.

Follow the actual science Gortex, not the political science.

smh.

Please continue in the existing thread.