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2020-12-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Another new coronavirus variant found in Nigeria - African CDC
[Jpost] The news comes after Britannia and South Africa both reported new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that appear to be more contagious.

Another new variant of the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
seems to have emerged in Nigeria, the head of Africa's disease control body said on Thursday, cautioning more investigation was needed.

"It's a separate lineage from the UK and the South African lineages," John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told an online news conference from Addis Ababa.

"The one we are seeing in Nigeria, and this is based on very limited data yet, has the 501 mutation," Nkengasong added, referring to the variant termed 501. V2 identified in South Africa and announced by public health officials there on Dec. 18.

The Nigeria CDC and the African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases in Nigeria will study more samples, Nkengasong said.

The country's principal COVID-19 investigator has just released publicly the genomic sequences of the new variant, he added.

Nigeria's CDC did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Nkengasong's remarks.

Nigeria, Africa's most populous country with more than 200 million people, has seen fewer coronavirus cases than many others on the continent.
Total cases crept past 80,000 on Wednesday. Daily recorded cases exceeded 1,000 for the first time this month.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-12-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 Another who bucked China. USA, UK, Australia and Southern India join China's club of targets.
Posted by Dale 2020-12-26 04:09||   2020-12-26 04:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Meanwhile the actual origins of the Wuhan virus remain a mystery, unless of course one accepts the Wet Market theory put forth by the Chinese.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-26 04:15||   2020-12-26 04:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Just in time for the vaccine?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-12-26 05:00||   2020-12-26 05:00|| Front Page Top

#4 So they are just now talking about C-19 variants?

If you checkout
SPREAD & VARIANTS
You'll see that there has been several strain variants being tracked since as far back as Feb/March 2020
Posted by NN2N1  2020-12-26 05:50||   2020-12-26 05:50|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ Variants include live/dead fowl, fish, domestic meat, bushmeat, roadkill, pets, all varieties of rodents and insects to name just a few. These creatures are conspiring to put all of us on ice.

Don't blame Xi Jinping, the MSS, or international students. Think 'Arc Encounter' and total Intelligent Design betrayal.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-26 07:30||   2020-12-26 07:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Did Fauci move testing/work on this SARS virus to China years ago?
Posted by Clem 2020-12-26 07:34||   2020-12-26 07:34|| Front Page Top

#7 So many inconvenient facts, deceptions and dead-ends, where does one hope to begin ?

Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-26 07:38||   2020-12-26 07:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Fauces has at one point or another said exactly what any particular group wanted to hear.

Sometimes just a week apart.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-12-26 14:36||   2020-12-26 14:36|| Front Page Top

#9 we are seeing in Nigeria, ... has the 501 mutation,

Or is it the 419 mutation?
Posted by Dron66046 2020-12-26 19:55||   2020-12-26 19:55|| Front Page Top










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