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Published: 28 November 2021
Several countries in the world have announced the registration of infections within their territories with the new mutant of the corona virus, omicron, first spotted in South Africa and described by the World Health Organization as "disturbing."
Last Thursday, scientists discovered the mutant in the African country most affected by the epidemic, which is seeing a new increase in the number of infections, with 50 new omicron mutants recorded over the past 24 hours, followed by the monitoring of such infections in Belgium, Botswana, Israel, Hong Kong and Denmark.
The German health authorities confirmed their registration of the first two new strain of the Corona "Omicron" virus in Bavaria, which had two people coming to Munich from South Africa on 24 November, before the suspension of flight with this African state, and are currently under quarantine.
Australia announced the registration of two new mutant injuries for passengers from South Africa.
According to the Czech National Institute of Public Health, the authorities were studying a case of suspected omicron mutant, discovered in a person who had spent some time in Namibia.
For its part, the Italian National Health Institute (INH) announced that it had recorded the first omicron infection, as genome sequencing at the Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Virology and Emergency Biopsy at Sacco Hospital in Milan was determined from a positive sample of a traveler from Mozambique.
The British Minister of Health, Sajid Jawed, also announced that his country had registered two new corona mutants linked to South African ones, one in Chelmsford and the other in Nottingham.