South Africa Detects Indian, UK Virus Variants
Health Minister says travel restrictions will need to be balanced to protect economy. A variant of COVID-19 first found in India has been detected in South Africa, the country s health minister confirmed late on Saturday.
Zweli Mkhize said the Network for Genomic Surveillance in South Africa (NGS-SA) confirmed that two variants of concern have been detected.
The minister said 11 cases of the B.1.1.7 variant first detected in the UK and four cases of the B.1.617.2 variant first detected in India were found in the country.
Mkhize said two cases of the Indian variant were detected in Gauteng province which includes capital Pretoria and the largest city of Johannesburg. Two others were found in KwaZulu-Natal province.
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