New Covid-19 variant is dominant in South Africa

New Covid-19 variant is dominant in South Africa

A new Covid-19 variant with a higher viral load has become dominant in South Africa, announced Health Minister Zweli Mkhize in a public briefing yesterday (19).

A report suggests that this new variant is driving the second wave.

Mkhize said a genomics team, led by the Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform has sequenced hundreds of samples from across the country since the beginning of the pandemic in March.

They noticed that a particular variant has increasingly dominated the findings of the samples collected in the past two months.

This particular variant has been reported in other countries, including the UK and Australia.