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Due to COVID-19 being a relatively new virus, which researchers are continuing to investigate, many questions and theories are still being presented. Questions such as how exactly the virus spreads, why some people become far sicker than others and why some show few or no symptoms of being infected at all remain.
New COVID-19 variant not yet found in Central Valley, health officials say
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) Medical experts indicated a new Coronavirus variant - L452R - was quickly spreading throughout California. They also worried it could be more infectious than the original strain but more research needed to be done.
When large COVID-19 outbreaks have occurred, health officials said samples of some infected patients were taken for genome sequencing so the virus structure could be analyzed.
UCSF Virologist Dr. Charlies Chiu said, The expectation would be that we would be able to rapidly identify new variants that may be of concern or new variants that may be worth investigating.
However, they are believed to be more contagious than the original strain that started the pandemic.
A higher infection rate inevitably means more vulnerable people are likely to need hospital care - when the NHS is already reaching full capacity.
Professor Devi Sridhar, chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh, said the world has become the virus s playground .
Symptoms of new covid strain
Japan s National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) detected the new covid variant in four travellers from Brazil s Amazonas state on January 2.
One male in his 40s, who was asymptomatic on his arrival in Japan, was later hospitalised as the virus attacked his respiratory system.
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The rapid global spread of COVID-19 has strained healthcare and testing resources, making the identification and prioritisation of individuals most at-risk a critical challenge. The severity of symptoms experienced could be down to one’s blood type says researchers.