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SAO PAULO A Brazilian lab said on Thursday it has detected two cases of the new coronavirus variant that has spread rapidly in Britain, and urged reinforcement of quarantine measures for travelers coming from Europe.
Diagnostic medicine company Dasa said in a statement that it had detected the SARS-CoV-2 strain B.1.1.7 through genetic sequencing done in partnership with Sao Paulo University’s Tropical Medicine Institute.
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“Sequencing confirmed that the new strain of the virus has arrived in Brazil,” said researcher Ester Sabino at the Tropical Medicine Institute.
Covid-19: Brazil detects two cases of new coronavirus variant found in UK
Reuters/Sao Paulo, Brazil Filed on December 31, 2020
A screen showing thermal scanning to check the temperature of passengers at the Guarulhos airport, is seen amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Guarulhos, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, December 27, 2020.
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The new variant has rapidly become the dominant strain in cases of Covid-19 in parts of southern England.
A Brazilian lab said on Thursday it has detected two cases of the new coronavirus variant that has spread rapidly in Britain, and urged reinforcement of quarantine measures for travelers coming from Europe.
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Diagnostic medicine company Dasa said in a statement that it had detected the SARS-CoV-2 strain B.1.1.7 through genetic sequencing done in partnership with Sao Paulo University s Tropical Medicine Institute. Brazil detects 2 cases of new coronavirus variant found in UK
Published January 1, 2021 3:14am SAO PAULO, Brazil - A Brazilian laboratory said on Thursday it has detected two cases of the new coronavirus variant that has spread rapidly in Britain, and urged reinforcement of quarantine measures for travelers coming from Europe. Diagnostic medicine company Dasa said in a statement that it had detected the SARS-CoV-2 strain B.1.1.7 through genetic sequencing done in partnership with Sao Paulo University s Tropical Medicine Institute.
NGOs More Vital Than Ever In Helping With Venezuela s Worsening Humanitarian Crisis
Simón Bolívar Foundation panels cite COVID-19 as accelerating the country s deteriorating health, food and economic security, and underscore gap in humanitarian funding
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HOUSTON, Dec. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ NGOs and other private philanthropic groups are increasingly critical in helping address the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, according to three diverse panels of leading experts recently convened in Houston via webinar by the Simón Bolívar Foundation.
Panelists from the international development and humanitarian relief sector pointed out that while the COVID-19 pandemic has devastated Latin America, increasing poverty throughout the region, Venezuela s suffering is dramatically worse due to the ongoing economic collapse that preceded the COVID outbreak. Hyperinflation, a shattered private sector, dwindling foreign ex