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Aruba has five variants of Covid19

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Topic: Aruba has five variants of Covid19
Posted By: Dutch Josh
Subject: Aruba has five variants of Covid19
Date Posted: March 18 2021 at 1:18pm

[url]https://www.visitaruba.com/news/general/corona-virus-and-travel-to-aruba/[/url] or https://www.visitaruba.com/news/general/corona-virus-and-travel-to-aruba/ - https://www.visitaruba.com/news/general/corona-virus-and-travel-to-aruba/ ;The Netherlands’ National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) has provided an update based on several tests sent to them recently by Aruba’s Heath Department. In addition to the previous four COVID-19 variants identified, they have added a fifth, namely the South African variant (also known as 501.V2 or B.1.351) of which two cases have been identified.  As for the other variants, the most prevalent is the UK variant (also known as B.1.1.7) of which 97 infections have been reported to date,  the second is the Mexican variant (also known as B.1.1.222) of which 8 infections have been reported, the third is the Californian variant (also known as B.1.427 / 429) of which 3 cases have been reported,  and the last is the Brazilian variant (also known as P.1) of which 1 case has been reported.

DJ-[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aruba[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aruba - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aruba Population 116,576 (2019) 



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Posted By: EdwinSm,
Date Posted: March 18 2021 at 11:29pm

That is a lot of variants out of 8 624 cases ( https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/aruba/ - https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/aruba/ )



Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 19 2021 at 1:55am

Yes it is-signaling risks on smaller islands. In a closed community the risks of virus spread is high-with increasing risks for mutations. Those mutations themselves can cause further variants...



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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