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DAKAR A more contagious variant of the coronavirus first identified in Britain has now been detected in Senegal, its health institute said on Thursday, just as measures to contain the spread of the virus appeared to have stalled a recent surge.
British scientists say the UK variant, known as B.1.1.7, may be up to 70% more transmissible and also more lethal – with a mortality risk around 30% higher.
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“Due to the fact that these variants are transmitted more rapidly, which could explain the speed of spread of the disease in some countries, it is imperative that individual and collective prevention measures be scrupulously applied,” Souleymane Mboup, president of the health institute, said on TV.
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.
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