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Taiwan reports first case of mutant South African Covid strain TaiwanNews | 6:02 AM Taiwan on Wednesday (January 13) reported its first imported case of the new mutant coronavirus strain from South Africa. On Wednesday, Health minister and Central Epidemic Command centre (CECC) head Chen Shih-chung announced that a man from Eswatini who had previously been diagnosed with COVID-19 on January 1 has been found to have the South African variant of the virus. The new strain, identified as B.1.351, is 1.5 times more transmissible than the original version that came out of Wuhan, China in 2019, according to the...
