The cases were discovered in the U.S. state of South Carolina. (Representative)
Washington:
A more susceptible variant of the coronavirus identified in South Africa was detected for the first time on U.S. soil in two adults with no travel history and unrelated to each other, officials said Thursday.
The cases were reportedly found in the state of South Carolina.
“The advent of the SARS-CoV-2 variant in our state is an important reminder to all South Carolinians that the fight against this deadly virus is far from over,” said Brannon Traxler. interim director of public health state health department.
The B.1.351 variant has been identified in more than 30 countries and scientists already thought it could be in the US.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a statement confirming the development, adding that they were working to expand a national system for detecting mutations.
The current U.S. ability to locate emerging series is far behind that of many other developed countries.
Scientists are more concerned about this trend than they are about the best-known B.1.1.7 variant first identified in Britain, which has now been seen in dozens of U.S. states.
This is because B.1.351 appears to be able to inhibit some of the inhibitory activity of antibodies induced by conventional vaccines and synthetic antibody therapies.
Although there is still no evidence that B.1.351 causes infection worse than the most common strains of the virus, the higher infection rate associated with the variant is leading to an increase in hospitalizations and deaths.
On Monday, officials in Minnesota announced the first case of a more livable difference, P.1, in a person who had recently returned from Brazil.
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