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Explainer: What do we know about the new B.1.1.529 Covid-19 variant, and should Singapore be concerned?

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SINGAPORE — Countries around the world, including Singapore, are on high alert over a new Covid-19 variant first discovered in South Africa and believed to be more transmissible than the original strain and possibly vaccine resistant, with some European and Asian nations tightening travel restrictions on Friday (Aug 26). Financial markets also took a battering on the news.

 

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