New Brazil coronavirus variant found in nearly half of Amazon city cases

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A variant of the novel coronavirus already accounts for about half of new infections in the Brazilian Amazonian city of Manaus, raising concerns about a greater risk of spread, a researcher warned on Friday.

FILE PHOTO: Health workers transport a patient at Getulio Vargas hospital, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Manaus, Brazil, January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly/File Photo

“That was the frequency that appeared in our December data. We are finishing January now and it is increasing,” said Sabino, a University of Sao Paulo professor whose team’s preliminary results have been published on the Virological.org forum. The Amazon’s largest city is currently suffering a brutal second wave of COVID-19 cases that has overwhelmed its hospital system and exhausted oxygen supplies, leaving dozens of people to die in their homes and intensive care wards, doctors say.

“Everything points to this variant being behind the way the pandemic is evolving in Manaus,” Sabino said.

 

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🙄🙄🙄🙄 and so on a so forth forever, until you have complete control of the population, there will always be the next New thing people should fear. Good luck with that.

They're pushing the COVID-21 and AGENDA 21 plans! BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!

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