Brazil revealed a variety of coronavirus, similar to a strain from South Africa, but this could be the evolving brazilian strain, the President of the Institute Buttan Dimas Kowas will report, report RIA Novosti.
“(a variety – ed.) Looks like a strain from South Africa,” he said to journalists.
At the same time, people who have identified the virus did not travel and did not communicate with people who visited the African country. Cases were discovered in São Paulo.
Kowas noted that it is possible that the identified virus can be the result of the evolution of the Brazilian strain P1.
Strain 501.v2 was first revealed in South Africa in October. According to the European Center for Control and Prevention of ECDC Diseases, now this species is the dominant form of the virus in South Africa. Preliminary studies have shown that this strain is as well as discovered in the UK is more contagious, but there is no data that it affects the severity of the disease.