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A new strain of coronavirus swept the world: it may be more contagious

Southeast Asia is facing a new outbreak of coronavirus caused by one of the new strains that has already spread to Europe and the United States. On the In the Philippines, it caused the largest outbreak in the region. Scientists are studying the strain to see if the mutation makes the virus more infectious. Writes about it Bloomberg.

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The strain, previously seen in other parts of the world and named D614G, is now found in Asia and is responsible for the Malaysian disease cluster, which has affected at least 45 people. The infection is believed to have started with a person who returned from India and violated a 14-day home quarantine. The Philippines discovered this strain among random samples of COVID-19 in the largest city in the country's metropolitan region.

“The mutation is said to have a higher chance of transmission or contagiousness, but we still don’t have strong enough evidence to say that this is the case,” said Philippine Undersecretary of Health Maria Rosario Vergire.

The strain has been found in many other countries and has become predominant in Europe and the United States, with the World Health Organization (WHO) saying there is no evidence that the strain causes more severe disease. The mutation has also been discovered during recent outbreaks in China.

According to Benjamin Cowling, head of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Hong Kong, epidemiological data do not indicate that the mutation is significantly more infectious than other strains.

“It is being identified more frequently now than in the past, which suggests it may have some competitive advantage over other COVID-19 strains,” he said.

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As the countries of Southeast Asia take various steps to prevent the epidemic from re-emerging by resuming travel, they are fighting people who violate quarantine rules after returning from abroad, as well as false-negative test results at borders.

People's cooperation

“People should be careful and take stricter precautions because this strain has now been detected in Malaysia,” the country's health director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah wrote, saying the strain could make the virus 10 times more contagious. “People’s cooperation is very necessary so that together we can break the chain of infection from any mutation.”

“The strain may be a little more contagious. We don't yet have enough evidence to estimate the extent of infection, but there is no evidence that it is much more contagious,” said Cowling of the University of Hong Kong.

Noor Hisham warned that the spread of the strain could mean that vaccines currently being developed may be incomplete or ineffective against the mutation. This is even though an article published in Cell Press says the mutation is unlikely to have a major impact on the effectiveness of vaccines currently being developed.

While Malaysia has largely managed to prevent re-spread of the virus seen elsewhere in the world, the number of new cases found in the country is on the rise. On Saturday, August 15, the country reported 26 new cases, the most since July 28.

The number of confirmed cases in the Philippines has risen 76% since the end of July. More than a week ago, the country overtook Indonesia to become the state with the largest outbreak in Southeast Asia.

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