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UK government agency Public Health England (PHE) is investigating a new variant of the coronavirus that has been detected in the UK. So far, there have been 16 cases of variant B.1.621, which has not yet received the Greek letter designation from WHO.

  1. According to GISAID data, there are more and more cases of variant B.1.621 worldwide; is already present in 26 countries
  2. It was first detected in January in Colombia
  3. British government agency has released new information on variant B.1.621
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Coronavirus: B.1.621 in UK

All cases of infections with the new variant are associated with foreign travel, the agency said. There is as yet no evidence that the mutant was spreading locally, but PHE decided to move it to the “variant under investigation” category.

“There is currently no evidence that this variant causes more severe COVID-19 disease or makes current vaccines less effective. PHE conducts laboratory tests to better understand the effects of the mutation on virus behavior, ”PHE wrote in a statement.

There were 16 cases nationwide, 10 of them from London patients. The variant was detected during routine testing of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus genome.

Coronavirus: Variant B.1.621 – what is known about it?

Currently, there is not much information available about the new mutation. It is known that B.1.621 was already present in various parts of the world before.

The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reports that this variant was first detected in Colombia in January 2021.

The new version of the virus has been found in 26 different countries, incl. in the USA (592 cases), Portugal (56), Japan (47), Switzerland (41) and India (23). Data collected in GISAID (Global Flu and Coronavirus Database) shows that since June, the number of countries reporting B.1.621 cases has been increasing. Almost half of them have been detected in the US.

There is no information about the presence of this variant in Poland. Our country is currently dominated by the Delta, which was discovered in India.

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