Concern: The South African mutation is resistant to the vaccine Israel today

A new strain of the virus, which has broken out in South Africa and appears to be particularly contagious, raises the concern that in addition to its rapid spread, the effectiveness of the vaccine against it is questionable. • Scientists estimate that the answer to this question will be received in the coming weeks.

• Where will the new variety come from?

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After the vaccines of Pfizer and Moderna, Astrosnica also began to supply the corona vaccines it produces for widespread use, but at the head of all the scientists fighting the virus that changed the world, the question is - whether the new mutation originating in South Africa will be resistant, Next or the one after it?

At this point it is already clear that the South African mutation, which has spread throughout the giant country and pushed the other strains in the country, is highly contagious, but its resistance to vaccines is not clear.

Although the World Health Organization noted that at this stage there is no evidence that the new strain is more dangerous than the normal virus, but as mentioned - the main question is its resistance to vaccines.

"There is cause for concern, this is a serious problem"

Matt Hankock, Britain's health minister - who has already identified a number of South African patients - said he was very concerned about the new strain, saying it was a "very serious problem".

Scientists at Oxford also share with him the fear of the new strain.

While their assumption is that the British mutation is not resistant to vaccines, they can not say such a thing about the South African strain and Jonathan Van Tam, the UK deputy health chief told Politico that more could be known about the new strain in just ten days.

However, Van Tam has made it clear that for a strain to be vaccine-resistant, it "will have to undergo many mutations in order to be sophisticated for all vaccines on the market."

Meanwhile, UK experts are calling on the government to take care to isolate cases of South African strain detection and not allow it to spread in the country - as the British mutation has spread in many countries around the world.

But experts know that these are probably not the only new strains of corona virus in the world - but only those that have been discovered, due to the many genome tests conducted in both countries, the question is what will bring the next strains to discover, and who will win the race - vaccines or corona.