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Covid-19: UK variant spotted in Senegal
Published on 28.01.2021 at 20h21 by APA News
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The new British strain of the coronavirus, known to be more contagious and deadly is now present in Senegal, Professor Souleymane Mboup announces.After Gambia, it is Senegal’s turn to nab the British variant of Covid-19. The latter was found in the samples of the second series of sequencing of the second wave, which is currently raging in Senegal, Professor Mboup explains.
The director of the Institute for Health Research, Epidemiological Surveillance and Training (Iressef) was speaking at the daily press briefing from the Ministry of Health and Social Action dedicated to the pandemic situation.
2021-01-28 14:35:59 GMT2021-01-28 22:35:59(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
DAKAR, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) The new strain of more contagious COVID-19 variant first discovered in Britain has been identified during sequencing in positive specimens in Senegal, Professor Souleymane Mboup confirmed during Thursday s daily COVID-19 briefing of the Senegalese health ministry.
According to Mboup, Institute for Health Research, Epidemiological Surveillance and Training (IRESSEF), the institute founded by him, in collaboration with the Medical Research Council The Gambia (MRCG), has carried out sequencing samples collected during the second wave of Senegal s COVID-19 pandemic through Whole Genome sequencing and next-generation sequencing.
Mboup called on all Senegalese to scrupulously apply individual and collective prevention measures, given that the variant strains are transmitted more quickly.