The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday that a new strain of the coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria, but further investigation is needed.
“It’s a separate lineage from the UK and the South African lineages,” John Nkengasong, director of the CDC, told reporters from Addis Ababa. “The one we are seeing in Nigeria, and this is based on very limited data yet, has the 501 mutation,” he said, referring to the variant termed 501.V2 and announced by South African health officials on December 18.
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