{"id":73044,"date":"2021-07-10T07:56:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T11:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=73044"},"modified":"2021-07-10T08:59:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T12:59:34","slug":"the-russian-variant-is-it-the-moscow-mutation-or-siberian-strain-sarc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=73044","title":{"rendered":"The Russian Variant<\/b>: Is it the “Moscow Mutation” or “Siberian Strain”? (sarc)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moscow Mutation? Siberian Strain? WHO puts Covid-19 variant first discovered in Russia on special list for \u2018extra monitoring\u2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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By\u00a0Jonny Tickle<\/strong><\/em>
\nRT.com<\/p>\n

The World Health Organization has revealed that it has placed a new Covid-19 strain first discovered in Russia on its online list of variants for monitoring. It joins a selection of eleven other unnamed coronavirus mutations.<\/p>\n

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The strain was first detected in January this year, but it has only now been deemed severe enough to be listed.<\/p>\n

According to the WHO classification system, variants are determined first to be designated for\u00a0\u201cfurther monitoring,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0before being promoted to\u00a0\u201cof interest,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and then, finally,\u00a0\u201cof concern.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0If the newly discovered variant found in Russia is determined to be more serious, it will be given a Greek letter name. As of now, it is simply\u00a0known<\/a>\u00a0as AT.1.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Speaking to news agency TASS, the WHO highlighted that it would not dub the variant \u2018Russian\u2019, as per the organization\u2019s policy.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo country should be stigmatized for identifying and reporting variants,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the WHO said.<\/p>\n

As well as the strain found in Russia, the list also includes other variants first discovered in the likes of Brazil, the US, and the Philippines.<\/p>\n

Russia is currently being hit by a new wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. In recent weeks, cases have climbed, and the country is now regularly reporting more than 20,000 newly detected infections per day. Deaths have also risen significantly.<\/p>\n

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