Britain and South Africa are both suffering resurgences of coronavirus which they are blaming on newly-identified mutations of the disease
South Africa's coronavirus mutant is driving a second wave and more than 8,500 have been hospitalised - surpassing the country's first wave peak of 8,300 inpatients
* Cases in South Africa have spiked from 3,000 to 9,500 per day in three weeks
* New strain announced last Friday and accounts for up to 90% of SA's new cases
* Strain called 501.V2 believed to be more extreme than one discovered in Britain
* Two cases of SA mutant detected in Britain, Hancock calls it 'highly concerning'
* Scientists say it is more transmissible but so far not believed to be more deadly
* UK, Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, Israel and Mauritius banned flights from SA
Britain today banned travel to South Africa after discovering two cases of a mutant Covid-19 which has been is driving a massive second wave among young people in the country.
The mutant, called 501.V2, was announced in Cape Town last Friday and is believed to be a more extreme variant than Britain's new Covid strain which has plunged millions into miserable Christmas lockdowns.
Cases in South Africa have soared from fewer than 3,000 a day at the start of December to more than 9,500 per day, with the mutant accounting for up to 90 percent of those new infections.
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WNU Editor: This new strain has already spread to the U.K. .... Mutated coronavirus variant from S.Africa found in UK, health minister says (Reuters). This new strain is raising a lot of red flags.
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6 comments:
Why South Africa?
Large population.
Large Urban population
Large population with weakened immune system due to HIV
Young people without AIDS will recover.
Young people with HIV will have a higher than normal death rate. Not a shock.
Again who cares, please stop with the fear porn, only thing I want to know is does it have a human extinction level rate. Viruses always mutate, ALWAYS. It it s crapshoot when the make flu vaccines because there are so many mutations of if. Mutating is probably a good thing because it could burn itself out. Please stop with the we are all going to die fear porn
I assume the reason WNU is scared is for the sake of his mother. There are 2 or 3 other reasons or possible reasons.
Whew I am at deaths are ramping up. There were 3 on the same day at one nursing home.
I will state again the average nursing home stay is 5 months. If a 100 people are out in a nursing home on January 1, 2021, 50 of them won't be around by Memorial Day (COVID or no COVID)
What does that tell you?
All the covid has done is decreasing life expectancy by 4 to 6 months maybe overall and just for this year and maybe only for the nursing home set.
Agreed, 2:54,
A few more months in a dead end care facility is hardly worth acknowledging. Put into one of these outfits I think I would ask myself first thing every morning "what did I do to deserve this?"
I always considered dying at home best. 4 of of 5 recent ancestors did. Not one died in a nursing home. That is my standard.
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