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The US has reported its first cases of the more infectious coronavirus variant from South Africa

The US isn't testing enough samples to spot variants quickly

Neither South Carolinian infected with the variant had recently traveled, and there was "no connection between these two cases," state health officials said. This suggests, in all likelihood, the variant entered the US long before these infections were detected and has been spreading silently for weeks.

"It's probably more widespread" in the state, Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, an infectious diseases physician at the Medical University of South Carolina,A volunteer receives an injection for a potential vaccine against COVID-19 at the Baragwanath Hospital on June 28, 2020 in Soweto, South Africa. The vaccine, developed by Oxford University's Jenner Institute, will inoculate 2,000 South Africans.

According to the DHEC, South Carolina researchers have been testing random samples "in order to identify any instances of the variant viruses" since June.

 

Now you gonna put the variant on africa, no one is saying anything about the variant from china that has killed a lot of people....🙏the shit is getting old

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