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A new study at Tel Aviv University found that the British variant (termed: B.1.1.7) of Covid-19 is 45% more contagious than the original virus. The researchers relied on data from about 300,000 PCR tests for Covid-19 obtained from the COVID-19 testing lab, which was established in collaboration with the Electra Group.
The new study was conducted by Prof. Ariel Munitz and Prof. Moti Gerlitz of the Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, together with Dr. Dan Yamin and PhD student Matan Yechezkel from the Laboratory for Epidemic Modeling and Analysis (LEMA) at the Department of Industrial Engineering, all at Tel Aviv University. The study s results were published in the prominent scientific journal
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A new study by Tel Aviv University found that the British variant (B 1.1.7) of Covid-19 is 45 percent more contagious than the original virus. The researchers relied on data from around 500,000 PCR tests for Covid-19, which had been obtained from the Covid-19 test laboratory, which was set up in collaboration with the Electra Group. The new study was carried out by Ariel Munitz and Moti Geritz from the Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine. This was done in collaboration with Dan Yamin and PhD student Matan Yechezkel from the LEMA laboratory at the Department of Industrial Technology, all at Tel Aviv University. The results of the study were published in the prominent scientific journal “Cell Reports Medicine”. The joint laboratory between Tel Aviv University and Electra was created in March 2020, right after the first wave of the pandemic broke out
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