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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>A new variant of the deadly coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the alert on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The body announced plans to commence further investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a separate lineage from the U.K. and South Africa. Give us some time, it\u2019s still very early\u201d, Africa CDC head, John Nkengasong, told reporters.<\/p>\n

He said the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) the African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) would analyze more samples.<\/p>\n

Nkengasong disclosed that the new variant was based on two or three genetic sequences.<\/p>\n

It was found in two patient samples collected in August and October in Osun State.<\/p>\n

Nigeria, Africa\u2019s most populous country, has recorded 80,922 cases of COVID-19, 1,236 deaths, and 69,274 recoveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. A new variant of the deadly coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria. The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the alert on Thursday. The body announced plans to commence further investigation. \u201cIt\u2019s a separate lineage from the U.K. and South Africa. Give us some time, it\u2019s still very early\u201d, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1437,28,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1578,1386,254],"class_list":["post-33852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-files","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-breaking","tag-coronavirus","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"\nNew variant of coronavirus reportedly emerge in Nigeria - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A new variant of the deadly coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/new-variant-of-coronavirus-reportedly-emerge-in-nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New variant of coronavirus reportedly emerge in Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A new variant of the deadly coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/new-variant-of-coronavirus-reportedly-emerge-in-nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-12-25T17:09:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/img-5fe6140a2a18e.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/new-variant-of-coronavirus-reportedly-emerge-in-nigeria#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/new-variant-of-coronavirus-reportedly-emerge-in-nigeria\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"New variant of coronavirus reportedly emerge in Nigeria\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-25T17:09:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/new-variant-of-coronavirus-reportedly-emerge-in-nigeria\"},\"wordCount\":140,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/new-variant-of-coronavirus-reportedly-emerge-in-nigeria#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/img-5fe6140a2a18e.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"breaking\",\"coronavirus\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"files\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/new-variant-of-coronavirus-reportedly-emerge-in-nigeria#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/new-variant-of-coronavirus-reportedly-emerge-in-nigeria\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/new-variant-of-coronavirus-reportedly-emerge-in-nigeria\",\"name\":\"New variant of coronavirus reportedly emerge in Nigeria - 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