Malaysian scientists alert about discovery of a much more scary COVID-19 strain
In a timespan of eight months, COVID-19 cases have breached 21.6 million infection cases. Ever since the first cluster of infection was discovered in Wuhan, China, COVID-19 has been impacting cities across the world differently. However, all of these have been mutating slowly and weren’t much different from those originally sampled in China.
Now, Malaysian authorities have discovered a more infectious and mutant strain of the SARS-COV-2 virus under circulation, which could have more lasting consequences and bring larger threats to reality about the pandemic’s uncertain end.
A new mutation of the virus has been discovered in Malaysia when a man returning from India flouted his quarantine rules and infected over 45 people. When the 45 cases were treated, it was observed that at least 3 of the tested samples carried a much more severe mutation of COVID-19, termed D614G.
According to Noor Hisham Abdullah, Director General of Health, the said mutation, earlier observed in the US and parts of Europe could be much more dangerous and bring on unprecedented problems for the viral resurgence.❐
