The Japanese Ministry of Health said today, Sunday, that a new variant of the novel coronavirus has been detected in four travelers coming from Brazil.
Takaji Wakita, head of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, said in a briefing to reporters at the Ministry of Health that the new variant differs from the two variants that were first discovered in Britain and South Africa.
"I understand a new variant that is different from Britain's and South Africa's has been found," Wakita told a health ministry briefing.
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