“Globo” a Brazilian news website, said that a group of scientists at Sao Paolo University in Brazil has detected a new strain of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that sweeps fast in the country.
The website quoted João Pessoa Araujo Junior, deputy-chairman of the Brazilian Society of Virology, as saying that the model P4 of the Coronavirus is unknown so far.
The new variant of the deadly virus is spreading in Porto Ferreira but scientists couldn’t define it and whether it is more contagious than the other mutations of it.
Junior indicated that the new strand of the virus has a joint origin with the Brazilian variants such as P1 and P2 and P3 that spread in the Philippines.
He added that all variants belong to the B.1.1.28 strand.
He stressed that it is important to acknowledge that there are new strains in Brazil.
He warned that the new unknown strain t was detected in nine municipalities in Sao Paolo State.
Junior unveiled that the health authorities are worried because the new variant spreads secretly in the inflicted areas.
On the other hand, the Minister of Health in Brazil said that the government of his country does its best to prevent the spreading of the Indian variant of the Coronavirus (known also as COVID-19).
A member of the crew of a cargo ship anchored at Sao Luis after a journey from South Africa was hurried to a hospital in the city.
That person contracted the Indian variant which is considered one of the most contagious strands in the world.
However, COVID-19 has claimed the lives of more than 450 thousand people since the outbreak of the disease.
This number equals half of the death toll in South America.
It was detected for the first time in a sample taken at Muccuca near Sao Paolo.
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