by Ian M. MacKay, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock Scientists in South Africa have discovered a new viral variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It’s not a single virus but a clustering of genetically similar viruses, known as C.1.2. The researchers, in a pre-print study released last week but yet to be peer reviewed, found this cluster has picked up...
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South Carolina identifies the first U.S. cases of coronavirus variant first seen in South Africa
By ANDREW JOSEPH @DrewQJoseph JANUARY 28, 2021 Reprints A colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (blue) heavily infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (yellow).NIAID Health authorities have identified the first U.S. cases of Covid-19 caused by a fast-spreading form of the coronavirus initially seen in South Africa, in two people in South Carolina. Neither person has...