(CNN) – A variant of the new coronavirus found in South Africa is being propagated rapidly and investigators are unaware of any challenge to the vaccine, given the scientist who discovered the variation.
“At the moment, we assume that the vaccine will be effective,” said Tulio de Oliveira, a professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. “Potentially, it may affect the vaccination efficacy, but it will have to be tried adequately.”
El jueves, el Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the Instituto Nacional de Alergias y Enfermedades Infecciosas, told the NBC Today Show program that a different variant of the virus, identified by the first time in the United Kingdom, “does not seem to evade the protection that brindan the vacancies that are currently in uso «.
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Oliveira says that the South African variant does not cause any more serious illness, but is being propagated rapidly.
“How much more we study this variant, more than we care about”, says Oliveira, virologist and associate professor of global health at the University of Washington. “Our main occupation is only the speed of transmission and this variant has dominated so rapidly”.
Dijo que of the samples samadas of one 400 people with covid-19 that would be treated in more than 100 different clinics in South Africa since November of November, 350 tenian this new variant. That’s 90% of them.
What we know about the South African variant
The South African variant has been found in other countries: United Kingdom, Switzerland, Finland, Japan, Australia, Zambia and France.
The variant has 22 significant changes in the anterior parts of the coronavirus, an unusually high number of mutations. The United Kingdom only has 17 changes. Varieties of the mutations are related to the protein proteins that are found in the superior part of the virus, which is the objective of the antispasmodics generated by the vacancies.
“What we are preoccupied with are three of their mutations located in the domain of the receptor union, and this is the most important region of the virus and a major objective of the antiseptics generated by the immunological system and the vaccines”, says Oliveira .