PETALING JAYA: Medical experts in Singapore have disputed an indictment through Malaysia’s Director General of Health, Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah, related to the discovery of a Covid-19 strain that is 10 times more infectious.
Experts have reportedly stated that the D614G strain is already in Singapore and would have no effect on the progression of a vaccine opposite the virus.
Noor Hisham said over the weekend that the new strain, discovered through scientists in July this year, had been known in 3 patients in Malaysia and would infect others 10 times more easily.
He also said that progressive vaccines can be useless in the face of this mutation.
However, Professor Wang Linfa, director of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Program at Duke-NUS School of Medicine, told the Straits Times that there was “no genuine clinical evidence” to claim that the strain is more communicable,” not to mention the ten-times-higher claim. .” Training
Wang’s assistant, Professor Ooi Eng Eong, said the mutation would not affect the effectiveness of the vaccine because vaccines generate antibodies that “bind to many other parts of the virus.”
“Possibly it wouldn’t be limited to the site of the mutation either.”
Associate Professor Hsu Liyang, infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, D614G, had been in the republic since February.
ST also noted that an article in Cell magazine reported that the D614G strain was “quickly dominant in the world”, but that it was “unlikely to have a primary effect on the effectiveness of vaccines that were being developed lately.”
Wang added that if the variant is genetically more adapted, it would mean it would spread easily.
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