New corona mutation first discovered in Germany at Christmas - More details on the first case

Ironically, on Christmas Eve: The first case of the new corona mutation from Great Britain is detected in Germany.

The authorities react immediately.

• Coronavirus pandemic in Germany

  : The

  corona mutation B.1.1.7.

  is proven for the first time in the Federal Republic - report about it on

  Christmas Eve

  .

• The

  woman infected

  with the

  coronavirus mutation *

  traveled from

  Great Britain

  via Frankfurt am Main to

  Baden-Württemberg

  .

• The

  coronavirus mutation B.1.1.7.

  is said to be up to 70 percent more contagious.

Update December 25, 11:28 a.m.:

At Christmas, it wasn't just the news from Germany that made the rounds.

It has now been announced that,

according to the pan-African health organization Africa CDC, another new

coronavirus variant is also

circulating

in

Nigeria

.

It looks like it evolved separately from the

virus mutants in South Africa and the UK

, Africa CDC head John Nkengasong said Thursday.

However, there is still little data on it and research is being continued.

The variant was discovered in two patient samples taken in August and October, according to a report by researchers in Nigeria.

How widespread the new variant is in Nigeria or in other countries is not yet known.

Nkengasong emphasized, however, that mutations in such viruses are not uncommon.

“We should expect these new variants to continue to emerge.” However, the variant in Nigeria does not have exactly the same mutation N501Y that is held responsible for the rapid spread of the corona mutant in Great Britain.

Bulgaria

, however, has allowed flights to and from Great Britain again from Thursday.

This made it possible for planes with returnees to land in the EU country again.

The flight stop that came into force on Monday due to the coronavirus mutation was lifted after three days.

According to a regulation by Health Minister Kostadin Angelow, the passengers of a first plane from London were tested for the corona virus with rapid tests at the airport.

A total of eight planes were expected from the UK on Thursday.

Update from December 24th, 6:20 p.m.: Little by little

, more details about the first proven

corona mutation

of variant

B.1.1.7 in Germany are

known.

The woman infected with the virus mutation traveled from

London Heathrow Airport

 to Frankfurt am Main

on December 20

.

A

corona rapid test had

already

turned out positive

at the airport near the Hesse metropolis

.

According to the authorities, she is

in domestic isolation

with relatives in the

Freudenstadt

district

.

After the first positive rapid test, according to a spokesman for the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Health, a PCR test was carried out on Monday (December 21), which was also positive.

The swab sample was sent to the responsible laboratory at the

Berlin Charité

.

From there, evidence of the

coronavirus variant B.1.1.7 was

made

on Thursday

.

Three close contacts would also be in quarantine.

New corona mutation now also in Germany: woman traveled from Great Britain via Frankfurt to Baden-Württemberg

First report from December 24th:

Munich / Stuttgart - Bitter setback for

Germany

in the

coronavirus pandemic *

.

And that of all things on

Christmas Eve

and

Christmas.

As the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Health this Thursday (December 24) announced that the first in was

Germany

known case of the new

Corona

* mutation

detected in the southwest of Germany.

It is a woman who entered

Baden-Württemberg

from

Great Britain

via Frankfurt Airport on

December 20th

.

For the

woman infected

with the new, highly contagious form of the

coronavirus

*

,

domestic isolation

was immediately

ordered.

The mutated variant B.1.1.7 of the #Coronavirus was detected today in a woman who entered BW from Great Britain on December 20, 2020.

The mutation B.1.1.7 had previously been discovered in Great Britain for the first time.

pic.twitter.com/ub2qYCBYNh

- Ministry of Social Affairs and Integration BW (@MSI_BW) December 24, 2020

In a tweet of the Ministry of Social Affairs and to said

corona case,

it said late Thursday afternoon:

"The person in question is currently visiting relatives in

Baden-Wuerttemberg

and traveled on Sunday, December 20, 2020, through Frankfurt am Main to

Germany

a .

A rapid test of all passengers for

SARS-CoV-2 was

carried out at the airport upon entry

, which was positive for the person concerned.

The family picked up the person from the airport by car and has been in domestic isolation ever since. "

Corona mutation B.1.1.7 now also in Germany: Great Britain had imposed lockdown on London

On December 19, the

British government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson

imposed

a new

lockdown

for south-east England after

the

mutated variant B.1.1.7 of the corona virus was

found

in the metropolitan area of

London

with its many millions of inhabitants

.

According to British information, the

corona mutation

is said to be

up to 70 percent more contagious than the previously known form of the virus.

Virologist Christian Drosten

from the Berlin Charité had only just before

Christmas

expressed the assumption that the

corona mutation from Great Britain

* was

very likely already in

Germany

.

Now there is apparently the first concrete evidence of this.

(pm)

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