WHO: C.1.2. COVID-19 variant does not seem to be spreading

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Publish Date: 21:09 - 31 August 2021
Tuesday, 31 August 2021 (YJC)_ The World Health Organisation said a new coronavirus variant that was first detected in South Africa in May does not appear to be spreading.

WHO: C.1.2. COVID-19 variant does not seem to be spreadingA new coronavirus variant that was first detected in South Africa in May does not appear to be spreading, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday, adding it was monitoring the variant as the virus evolves.

"It does not appear to be increasing in circulation," WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris told a U.N. briefing, adding the variant labelled C.1.2. was not currently classified as a "variant of concern" by the U.N. health agency.

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