What Is B.1.1.529- The New Covid Variant That Crashed Stock Market, Scared WHO

The discovery of a new covid-19 variant in South Africa has scared the entire world and the first to get heavily affected are traders and investors. On Friday morning, the trading session opened with 540.3 points but fell off by 1488.01 points where Nifty observed a decline of 448.05 points. The B.1.1.529 South Africa variant is the cause as scientists found it as a “very unusual constellation of mutations.”

It is more dangerous than the delta variantand has already started spreading outside South Africa where Hong Kong and Botswana are the first few countries taking the total to 10.  The 2 travelers who have reached Hong Kong from S. Africa have insanely high viral loads, said the doctor who is looking after these patients.

B.1.1.529 Could Resist The Vaccines, Fears WHO

Dr @mvankerkhove gives an update on #COVID19 virus variant B.1.1.529, during the #AskWHO session on 25 November 2021 ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/ZpflfEYzW9

— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) November 25, 2021

Whether B.1.1.529 variant which is termed as ‘heavily mutated’ is really a cause of concern or not, will be discussed in today’s special meeting of WHO.

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India And Britain To Impose Travel Restrictions Again

The conditions are alarming for India as well as the country reportedly observed a 15.7% of hike in covid patients. Around 13 states have identified fresh cases with Maharashtra having a maximum number of cases.

India is thus planning to curb the relaxation on travel and conduct rigorous screening of international passengers.

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Britain has once again banned the flights coming from the affected countries seeing the rising concerns and higher transmissibility of new covid variant B.1.1.529. Apart from South Africa, Hong Kong, and Botswana, flights from Zimbabwe, Eswatini, Namibia, and Lesotho will not be allowed to enter the borders. Citizens of the U.K arriving from these countries should quarantine.