25 Jan 2021
South Africa’s COVID-19 variant should be high on the agenda for the international community
By Staff Writer
Governments need to place more focus on South Africa’s COVID-19 variant, 501.V2, says data and analytics company, GlobalData. It is now considered more infectious than the UK variant based on its dominance compared with other strains of SARS-CoV-2. Highly infectious Bishal Bhandari, Senior Epidemiologist at GlobalData, comments: “This new strain is independent of the UK’s...
