{"id":119956,"date":"2021-11-26T11:27:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T16:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=119956"},"modified":"2021-11-26T11:27:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T16:27:22","slug":"new-covid-19-variant-discovered-governments-are-already-reacting-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=119956","title":{"rendered":"New COVID-19 variant discovered-Governments are already reacting to it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=119957\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-119957\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-119957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Veteran-and-the-shots-they-had-versus-coronavirus-333x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Veteran-and-the-shots-they-had-versus-coronavirus-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Veteran-and-the-shots-they-had-versus-coronavirus-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Veteran-and-the-shots-they-had-versus-coronavirus-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Veteran-and-the-shots-they-had-versus-coronavirus.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa is seeing a big rise in COVID-19 cases. Their health officials have stated that they&#8217;re dealing with a new variant of COVID-19. This strain is described as being heavily mutated. It appears to hit younger people more. One question that has popped up among those tracking this new variant? They are curious about the effectiveness of the current vaccines against it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Fox News:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The BBC reported that the new variant seems to be the most heavily mutated so far in the outbreak. James Gallagher, the health correspondent, wrote that one scientist described the variant as &#8220;horrific.&#8221; He said the meeting of the WHO will likely result in the variant receiving a Greek code-name, like the delta variant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This variant did surprise us,&#8221; Tulio de Oliveira, the director of the Center for South Africa&#8217;s Epidemic Response and Innovation, told the news outlet. &#8220;It has a big jump on evolution [and] many more mutations that we expected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nature magazine reported that the variant was first reported in Botswana earlier this month. The report said scientists are trying to determine if the variant can somehow evade the immune response. One researcher in Johannesburg said, &#8220;We&#8217;re flying at warp speed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aris Katzourakis, an expert at virus evolution at the University of Oxford, said, &#8220;A burning question is does it reduce vaccine effectiveness because it has so many changes.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe British government announced that it was banning flights from South Africa and five other southern African countries effective at noon (1200GMT) on Friday, and that anyone who had recently arrived from those countries would be asked to take a coronavirus test.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News has more on the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/who-meets-to-discuss-new-heavily-mutated-covid-19-variant\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa is seeing a big rise in COVID-19 cases. Their health officials have stated that &hellip; <a title=\"New COVID-19 variant discovered-Governments are already reacting to it\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=119956\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New COVID-19 variant discovered-Governments are already reacting to it<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[484],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119958,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119956\/revisions\/119958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}