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Is the new COVID-19 variant affecting more women and younger people?

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The new COVID-19 variant SARs Cov 501.2 has proven to be more transmissible than the virus that hit the country in March 2020. Men and old people were found to be 40% more likely to die during the first wave, but with the new variant, there are more deaths across all genders and age groups - this is an indication of how rapidly transmissible the new variant is.
Prof Tulio de Oliveira, world-renowned virus hunter and bioinformatician from KRISP at UKZN joined Darren, Keri and Sky to discuss the effects of the new variant and to give an update on the vaccine.
27 Jan 2021 2AM English South Africa Society & Culture · Daily News

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