Bagong virus strain, 56% na mas nakahahawa ayon sa pag-aaral

Police officers stand on duty at beneath a sign reading “Testing to Commence”, at the entrance to the Port of Dover in Kent, south east England, on December 23, 2020, where COVID-19 testing is set to begin on drivers who have been queueing to leave the UK. – France and Britain reopened cross-Channel travel on Wednesday after a 48-hour ban to curb the spread of a new coronavirus variant but London has warned it could take days for thousands of trucks blocked around the port of Dover to get moving. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

PARIS, France (AFP) – Nagbabala ang mga siyentista na ang nag-mutate na coronavirus strain na kunakalat sa Britanya, ay 56 percent na mas nakahahawa kaysa original version.

Batay sa pag-aaral na inilathala nitong Miyerkoles ng Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases sa London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, na ang bagong variant na lumitaw sa southeast England noong Nobyembre na mabilis na kumakalat, ay malamang mas magparami sa mga mao-ospital at mamamatay dahil sa COVID-19 sa susunod na taon.

Ayon sa mga researcher, na nakatutok sa English south east, east at London, na hindi pa tiyak kung ang mutated strain mas nakamamatay o hindi kaysa sa orihinal na strain.

Anila … “Nevertheless, the increase in transmissibility is likely to lead to a large increase in incidence, with Covid-19 hospitalisations and deaths projected to reach higher levels in 2021 than were observed in 2020, even if regional tiered restrictions implemented before 19 December are maintained.”

Nagbabala ang mga may-akda na ang national lockdown na ipinatupad sa England noong Nobyembre, ay malamang na hindi makapipigil sa pagtaas ng infections, maliban nang isara rin ang primary schools, secondary schools, at universities.

Passengers arrive at the Eurostar International Departures hall at St Pancras International station in London on December 23, 2020, as services prepare to resume following a 48 hour closure of the French border, due to a new coronavirus strain being discovered in the UK. – French Transport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebarri also confirmed that air travel, boats and Eurostar trains would “resume service as of tomorrow morning”. “French nationals, people living in France and those with a legitimate reason will have to be carrying a negative test,” he said. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP)

Anoman anilang pagluluwag sa umiiral na restrictions, ay malamang na magdulot ng muling pagsigla ng virus.

Sa pag-aanunsyo naman ng dagdag pang stringent lockdown measures ngayong holiday, sinabi ni British Prime Minister Boris Johnson na ang bagong viral strain ay maaaring 70 percent na mas nakahahawa kaysa original version ng sakit.

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves after attending a virtual press conference inside 10 Downing Street in central London on December 21, 2020, after a string of countries banned travellers and all but unaccompanied freight arriving from the UK, due to the rapid spread of a new, more-infectious coronavirus strain. – Countries around the world closed their borders to Britain Monday in a race to contain a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus as the European Union neared approval of its first jab for the bloc’s vaccination campaign. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson held a crisis meeting about the situation Monday, with particular concern about the disruption of goods from France, which imposed a 48-hour blockade on people and lorries crossing the English Channel. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / POOL / AFP)

Ang pagkakadiskubre ng bagong new strain ay ikina-alarma ng buong mundo, habang mas maraming bansa ang nagsisimula na ng kanilang vaccination campaign para mapigilan ang pandemya, na ikinamatay na ng higit 1.7 milyong katao mula nang lumitaw ito sa China nitong nakalipas na taon.

Maraming bansa ang agad na nagpatupad ng travel ban sa mga manggaling ng Britanya.

Ayon naman sa co-founder ng BioNTech — isa sa mga kompanyang nasa likod ng bakuna na ipinamahagi na sa buong mundo sa linggong ito — ang bakuna ay may mataas na kalamangang maging mabisa laban sa mutated strain na na-detect sa Britanya.

© Agence France-Presse

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