Scientists in South Africa shows their grave concerns, since another variant of COVID-19 metamorphose

The variant called- B.1.1.529 has adopt an usual constellation to bypass 'humans immune response' 

Cape Town: The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said 22 positive cases of the new variant have been recorded in the country.

"Unfortunately we have detected a new variant,” Tulio de Oliveira, from the Network for Genomic Surveillance in South Africa.

The variant “has a very high number of mutations”, he said. “It’s unfortunately causing a resurgence of infections,” he added.

Daily infections jumped to more than 1,200 on Wednesday, up from about 100 earlier this month. Since the beginning of the pandemic, South Africa has recorded about 2.95 million cases of COVID-19, of which 89,657 have been fatal.

More than 30 mutations to the spike protein that affects transmissibility had been found, so far the variant has been seen spreading mostly among young people.