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Virologist warns spread of South African COVID-19 variant from Malaysia possible via natural border


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Thailand’s respected virologist Dr. Yong Poovorawan has warned Thai security officials to keep a closer watch on border crossings from Malaysia, where the highly contagious South African COVID-19 variant is spreading.

 

In his Facebook post today (Sunday) Dr. Yong said that the Indian variant, which was detected among some recent arrivals, although contagious, is not as worrisome as the South African one, because the carriers who arrived by air were quarantined and treated.

 

Dr. Yong disclosed that there are five COVID-19 variants currently spreading in Malaysia, including the South African one (B.1.351), which now accounts for 31% of the infections there.

 

Source: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/virologist-warns-spread-of-south-african-covid-19-variant-from-malaysia-possible-via-natural-border/

 

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5 hours ago, edwardandtubs said:

This is indeed worrying as the Thai authorities have proven themselves to be completely unable/unwilling to control the borders and both the Sinovac and AstraZeneca vaccines are much less effective against the South Africa strain.

 

Covacin was said to be effective for both these variants and we did read about that was one of the vaccines thailand was trying to procure

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1 hour ago, Jeffr2 said:

A friend is in Singapore.  A lady went into quarantine for 2 weeks.  2 weeks later, she was sick.  They've no idea how it happened and they're doing a fantastic job there of contact tracing, etc.  Scary.  We just don't fully understand this virus yet.  Especially the variants.

There's already quite a few cases where it's proven the incubation period for some went beyond 14 days. That's why China imposed quarantine of up to 28 days. And yes the virus is more evasive than what people think. Considering the resources the Singapore government has put into contact tracing, quarantine, border control.....the past week has been a wake up call with scores of community infections from a few different sources. 

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5 hours ago, webfact said:

Dr. Yong disclosed that there are five COVID-19 variants currently spreading in Malaysia, including the South African one (B.1.351), which now accounts for 31% of the infections there.

Just gets better and better, shame the PM is so slow with the vaccination programme, much of this could have been avoided.

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42 minutes ago, Benmart said:

"China is doing great now.  Borders are closed, and the virus is in check".

 

I don't live in China, don't have an inside on what is going on country-wide and haven't a clue what truth is behind such statements. If governments9  such as China's (including the media, and others) were truthful, transparent and verifiable, then perhaps such proclamations would be more believable.

 

"If a lie is repeated often enough, people will believe it".

My business partner is Chinese. I have family in China whom I call everyday. Take it from me, life in China is about 95% back to pre covid days. 

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9 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

You truly sound like you are pro-China, 18% in the last quarter. Maybe it is from all the fake n95 and kn95 masks they are selling to the world. I for one have little time for China as they put the world in so much pain and worry of what to do next 

Yes, China could have done a lot better. But the rest of the world could have done better too when they saw it coming. It's probably hard for you to swallow but the fact is places which took draconian measures subsequently are doing better and China is one of them. 

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so is the world (except China) coming to an end? so China will have the world to itself better than using atomic bombs, if this is true then all of China must know what to do to stop the virus, why are they keeping it to themselves???

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