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According to reports, the new variant of the SARS-COV-2 could be up to 70 per cent more transmissible than the old variant, says Dr Rahul Pandit, Director-Critical Care, Fortis Hospitals Mumbai.
By: Lifestyle Desk | New Delhi |
Updated: December 29, 2020 9:37:08 am
Just when the world was beginning to think that with a vaccine in sight, the pandemic situation may come under control, a newly identified strain of the virus left countries puzzled once again. The UK government recently announced they have found a “highly contagious new variant of the virus” circulating in England. And citing the rapid spread in London and surrounding areas, Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed the country’s most stringent lockdown.
And while this information may have caused some panic in people, Dr Rahul Pandit, Director-Critical Care, Fortis Hospitals Mumbai, and member of Maharashtra’s COVID-19 task force, explains that like all viruses, coronavirus, too, is a shapeshifter. “Some genetic changes are inconsequential. “Researchers have recorded thousands of tiny modifications in the genetic material of the coronavirus, as it has hopscotched across the world. The British variant has affected how the virus locks onto human cells and infects them. These mutations may allow the variant to replicate and transmit more efficiently,” he says.
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There is not any evidence that this variant will make you more unwell, but as the virus is likely to infect more people this, inevitably, will result in more deaths. More than 2,000 deaths a day are already being recorded in Brazil, largely as a result of this new strain. It is spreading fast.
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