Japan has discovered a new variant novel coronavirus, with more than 90 cases of infection.

February 18 According to a report by Kyodo News Agency of Japan on the 18th, Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases

said on the same day that a new variant novel coronavirus has been found in Japan, whose strain is different from the variant virus previously found in the United Kingdom, South Africa and other countries.

The variant virus may weaken the immune effect, but the infectivity has not increased.

According to data released by the National Institute of Infectious Diseases of Japan, as of early February, a total of 91 cases of variant COVID-19 infection had been detected in Kanto, and 2 cases had been detected in airport testing.