A new variant of COVID-19 had been detected in Nigeria and 15 other countries, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), announced on Monday. The new strain, B.1.2.5 which is different from the highly infectious B.1.1.7 has, however, not been described as a variant of concern.
The NCDC Director-General, Dr Chikwe Iheakwazu, while disclosing this at the press briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja, said researchers and scientists were still working hard to understand if this variant had any effect on the virus transmissibility, immunity, as well as diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics. The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, on Monday also disclosed that Nigeria might take delivery of its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines between now and next week Monday.
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