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Prof Tulio de Oliveira reveals how the new Covid-19 variant in SA was identified
22 January 2021 11:28 AM
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Virus hunter Prof Tulio de Oliveira has been credited for discovering the new variant of Covid-19 driving the second wave in South Africa.
De Oliveira is a bioinformatician and the director of the KZN Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
The professor identified the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 that s currently causing rapid infection in South Africa.
He explains that genomic surveillance has been central to the discovery of Covid-19 variants in SA and across the world.
Genomic surveillance is the study of lineages associated with infectious diseases in order to keep track of genomic changes and mutations to a virus.
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Professor Tulio de Oliveira at work in his lab at the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine in Durban, South Africa, on January 8, 2021. Photo / Joao Silva, The New York Times
Professor Tulio de Oliveira at work in his lab at the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine in Durban, South Africa, on January 8, 2021. Photo / Joao Silva, The New York Times
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By: Matt Apuzzo, Selam Gebrekidan and Apoorva Mandavilli
Doctors and nurses at a South African hospital group noticed an odd spike in the number of Covid-19 patients in their wards in late October.