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| On January 27, 2021, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, health workers await the AstraZeneca vaccine. © Reuters = News1 © News1 Reporter Seoyoon Choi |
In Brazil, a patient who was simultaneously infected with two mutations of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) was the first in the world.
According to the Daily Mail of the UK on the 1st (local time), researchers at Pevalle University in Brazil collected and tested a sample of 90 infected patients from two liquor regions in southern Rio Grande, and found that two such patients were found.
One of the viruses known as’Brazilian mutation’ tested positive for both (P.1, P.2), and the other was from Brazil (P.2) and from South Africa (B.1.91). ) Were all positive.
“Simultaneous infection could accelerate the viral combination and the production of new mutations,” said the research team’s team leader Fernando Spielki.
However, the media reported that this study has not been published in scientific journals or has been verified by other researchers.
Opinions are divided even among experts.
“It is possible to infect both mutations simultaneously,” said John McCully, Ph.
However, a scientist who requested anonymity carefully raised the possibility of errors due to carelessness, saying, “The sample may have been contaminated during the research team’s sequencing process, resulting in incorrect results.”
According to World O Meter, an international statistics website, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Brazil as of the day was 9.316 million and the cumulative death toll was 22,5143.