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Spain is facing the arrival of a new, more-contagious strain of the coronavirus: the one that has been identified in South Africa. On Wednesday, Catalonia reported one of these cases after genetic sequencing was carried out on random samples taken from new positives. “It’s a case that we have just detected and we are starting epidemiological research,” said the head of microbiology at Barcelona’s Vall d’Hebron, Tomàs Pumarola. This development in the ongoing health crisis comes at a time when Spain has no clear idea of the real impact of the more-contagious coronavirus variant that was discovered in the United Kingdom late last year, and with no real plan underway to increase the country’s capacity to identify new mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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