Lebanon records 1st case of COVID-19 mutation

The Lebanese Minister of Health, Hamad Hassan, announced that the first case of the new surge of the emerging corona, with a traveler coming from the British capital, London, explaining in a tweet on "Twitter", that the passenger infected with the Corona virus entered Lebanon on December 21.

The Lebanese Minister urged those coming from the United Kingdom, and those who had mixed with the traveler, to be alert and to follow the recommended preventive measures. He pointed out that the Ministry of Health in the Lebanese caretaker government is working to follow up the infected case and the rest of the travelers who had contact with it.

Earlier, the minister said that his country will receive a batch of the "Pfizer" vaccine in mid-February, indicating that the process will take place directly.

He warned of the possibility of re-imposing a general lockdown in the country, in the event that the number of cases increases, and all medical beds in intensive care departments are full, and said that the matter is related to what will be recorded during the Christmas holiday.

The British Prime Minister announced the discovery of a "new type" of "Covid-19" virus, which may be responsible for a faster transmission of the disease.

The British government has canceled all Christmas celebrations and placed nearly 18 million people in the fourth level of preventive measures to combat the virus.

Scientists and researchers believe that the mutated version of Corona does not cause more severe symptoms of Covid-19, or that it raises the death rate among those infected with it, and the data so far indicate that the vaccines used against Corona, which first appeared in Wuhan, China in November / December 2019, effective with the new strain.

According to experts at Imperial College London, the new mutation may make Covid-19 transmissible between humans more, by 70 percent.

J.O