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According to the Science and Technology Daily, according to an epidemiological study published in the
British journal Nature and Medicine on the 3rd, a near-genome-wide analysis of the novel coronavirus isolated during the
COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa was carried out, and 16 new variants of the virus were found, all of which had not previously found elsewhere.
And this genome monitoring method can also be used on a large scale in Africa to identify new variants of COVID-19.