restrictions that have been imposed by countries on south africa and its neighbouring countries, he said that travel restrictions amounted to to discrimination and they are unfair because south african scientists, together with those in botswana came out to share information about this variant and what other scientists can be able to do in order to pick it out or flag it out much faster. yes, i mean a sense of frustration on that front, what about the sort of rate of increase in the numbers found in south africa at the moment? he gave a bit more on that? yes, he did. he was able to say that right now, according to the data he is getting from different provinces, this is now the command centre where they are getting the information. they are right now about more than 80 cases or 90 cases, he was not able to give an accurate number of these cases, but he also says within a few weeks they ll be able to know more about that particular variant, because there are still a few questions that s
and it s mostly been found in young adults, a group with a low vaccination rate. scientists are now working around the clock to find answers, but a jittery world is not waiting for them. international visitors are scrambling to get home as the u.s. joins countries in europe and asia who have already closed their doors to south africa. the world has been here before. the highly transmissible delta variant, first identified in india in december last year, quickly spread to become the dominant strain in a matter of months, forcing more lockdowns last summer. dr. hotez cautions against over- reacting. there s really very little that we can do to actually stop the virus via travel restrictions. i think it s highly likely that this new variant is already pretty widespread. reporter: south african scientists tell us they will know how effective the vaccines are against the new variant over
The World Health Organization s technical working group is to meet Friday to assess the new variant and may decide whether or not to give it a name from the Greek alphabet.
warns that otherwise, these super variants, as he calls it, could emerge. it is worth pointing out that the uk as part of the kovac smack speech democrat scheme, handing out many millions of vaccines to poorer countries. and it s likely this variant was actually caused by somebody with a compromised immune system in south africa who had something like hiv, according to the south african scientists, and this person kept getting a persistent covered my convection. but aside from the blame game, but we have is a british scientist calling this new variant horrific, and another telling the bbc it s the worst they ve ever seen. so the british government, even though it hasn t been detected in the uk so far, is moving fast to protect the progress that they ve made through the vaccine system that s been rolling out across the country. mark, thank you so much for that update on a very worrying development on that story.
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