South Africa's health minister said the currently available COVID-19 vaccines appear to be effective against the newly detected omicron Covid variant.
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‘The new variant, known as B.1.1.529, has been detected in small numbers in South Africa. The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday assigned the Greek letter Omicron to the variant.’
Phaahla added that the Omicron variant may be more transmissible due to its genetic composition. Meanwhile, world's major manufacturers of Covid-19 vaccines said Friday that they are working to quickly investigate and adapt their shots to a new and highly mutated strain of the virus.
The WHO said the new strain may pose a higher risk of re-infection than past mutations of the virus.
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Coronavirus is a large positive-strand RNA virus that is surrounded by a protein envelope. The virus obtains its name from the S protein spikes on its surface, which resemble a crown. The overall pattern of increasing coronavirus cases is shown to spike up with the “second wave” of COVID-19.
With spiking effects of the second wave of coronavirus, the best way to keep it at bay is to follow COVID-appropriate safety practices like wearing a mask, regularly cleaning your hands, and coughing into a bent elbow or tissue along with physical distancing (6 feet about 2 arm's length), that may help evade the severity of COVID-19 infection.
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Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca have also stated that they are investigating and testing the new variant.
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The variant, which emerged in South Africa, has about 50 mutations, more than 30 of which are on the spike protein that allows the virus to bind to human cells.
While the spread of the new variant is still in its early stages, it's not yet clear how severe an infection would be to a vaccinated person.
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