Ever more Covid-19 variants strike Africa, as hopes of controlling pandemic slip away
Another variant is dominating infections in Uganda and Rwanda, and is spreading through truck routes
05 May 2021 - 10:08
New coronavirus variants have proliferated across Southern and Eastern Africa, worsening the challenge of bringing the pandemic under control, analysis of the genomics data shows.
A strain first detected in SA late in 2020 is “completely dominating all infection in Southern Africa and seems to be entering East Africa,” said Tulio de Oliveira, director of Krisp, a genomics institute in Durban, which is leading a group that’s evaluating the data...
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