Researchers, scientists, and international organizations around the world announced the mutated coronavirus that has been seen in four countries of the world.
The new corona virus was found in four countries
19 Aug 2023 - 19:31
Researchers, scientists, and international organizations around the world announced the mutated coronavirus that has been seen in four countries of the world.
According to Amac News: According to CNN news agency, a new type of covid-19 or mutated corona virus has put the countries of the world on alert.
This news agency adds in a report that the new virus has been seen and reported in Denmark, the United States of America, Israel and England.
Dr. Jesse Blum, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, told this news agency that this virus has the ability to evolve like Covid-19.
Last Thursday, the World Health Organization asked the countries of the world to take necessary measures to identify and control this virus.
This organization said that the situation is not alarming, but added that the existing vaccines could not deal with this virus.
On the other hand, researchers are worried about the spread of this virus and say that the monitoring of the international community has decreased.
"The last time we saw such a big change was when Omicron came along," Morten Rasmussen, senior researcher at the Serum Institute, said in a news release about the strain.
SSI scientists emphasized that it is too early to say anything about the severity or contagiousness of the new strain.
Dr. Mandy Cohen, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Friday that the new strain should not be cause for alarm.
He added that we are more than ever ready to identify and react to the changes of the Covid-19 virus and we are following the new type of virus.
Cohen noted that the new virus has mutations that set it apart from other viruses.
Also, the British Health Security Agency said on Friday that the people who were infected with this virus in four different countries had no history of traveling abroad, and this indicates that the international transmission of this virus has been proven.
According to the CNN report, all those who were infected with this virus in the four mentioned countries had symptoms and conditions similar to each other.
Researchers at the University of Michigan, the lab that found the virus in the United States, did not give any information about the disease it was taken from, saying it was being investigated by the state's health department.
Meanwhile, in March of this year, the White House quietly polled 12 Covid-19 experts who follow the evolution of the coronavirus to ask them about the possibility of a highly mutated variant emerging in the next two years. He asked that most experts said that the probability of its occurrence was between 10 and 20 percent.
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