The coronavirus variant first detected in the northern Brazilian state of Amazonas is twice as contagious and capable of re-infection.
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‘Brazil has the world's second-highest Covid-19 death toll, after the US, and the third-largest caseload, after the US and India.’
The virus variant was initially detected in November 2020 in Manaus, capital of Amazonas state. In just seven weeks, the variant became more prevalent in the region, according to researchers at the Brazil-UK Center for Arbovirus Discovery, Diagnosis, Genomics and Epidemiology.
Sabino said the message from the data is that even people who have already had the disease should continue to be cautious.
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