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Brazil Detects New COVID-19 Variant Similar To One Spotted in South Africa

Brazil Detects New COVID-19 Variant Similar To One Spotted in South Africa

A health worker checks the temperature of a man in a sanitary barrier in Sao Caetano do Sul, near Sao Paulo, Brazil. Photo: Reuters/Carla Carniel/Files

Sao Paulo: Brazil has detected a new COVID-19 variant in Sao Paulo state that is similar to the one first seen in South Africa, Dimas Covas, the president of the state’s Butantan biomedical institute, said on Wednesday.

(Reuters – Reporting by Eduardo Simoes, writing by Gabriel Stargardter; editing by Stephen Eisenhammer)

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