READ | UKZN Professor Tulio de Oliveira (TulioDNA) says the initial waves of infections in Africa came mainly from Europe. COVID19 COVIDVariants
This is according to a study published on Thursday on Genomic Surveillance in Africa, in which scientists were able to describe the introduction and spread of Covid-19 during the pandemic.Its authors worked together to describe and analyse over 100,000 genomes and characterise Covid variants in real-time.
UKZN Professor Tulio de Oliveira says the initial waves of infections in Africa came mainly from Europe."We are using that same technology to fight HIV, TB, Malaria, Ebola and all other epidemics in Africa."De Olivera says this was amplified for Omicron BA.2. "Europe and North America just showing as we were penalised for an unethical and unscientific travel ban would not stop the spread of Omicron around the world.
"Ironically most of the infections in Africa that were causing big waves of infections were from other regions of the world."
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