Frequently Asked Questions - New Variant of SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa
- Author:
- National Institute for Communicable Diseases
- Publisher:
- Government of South Africa
- Publication Date:
- 19 December 2020
- Tags:
- South Africa, Coronavirus
A variant of the SARS-COV-2 Virus- currently termed 501.V2 Variant, has been identified by our genomics scientists here in South Africa. This genomics team, led by the Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform, or KRISP, has sequenced hundreds of samples from across the country since the beginning of the pandemic in March. They noticed that a particular variant has increasingly dominated the findings of the samples collected in the past two months. - NICD
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