Dr. Opas Karnkawinpong Director-General, Department of Disease Control Accept that the patient returning from abroad Infected with COVID-19 South Africa has a total of 3 people, after the first case it was found that a gem merchant returned from Tanzania. Make a stop in Ethiopia Before returning to Thailand, all 3 patients were in the hospital’s negative pressure isolation room. Which has a strong protection system from allowing the infection to come out
The issue of mutation in the coronavirus 2019 is a real concern for the medical profession.It is the nature of the virus that mutates in 1-2 locations of the genetic material per month. And will continue to change According to the timing of transmission Around the world, keep an eye out for three viruses with mutations: 1. A British strains, 2. B.1.351 from South Africa, and 3. A Brazilian strains, plus four from Myanmar. That came into the epidemic in Thailand
While Dr. Opas Puttacharoen, head of the Center for Emerging Clinical Diseases Chulalongkorn Hospital, Thai Red Cross Society stated that the location of COVID-19 The mutants are important because they can cause infection quickly, spread easily, and in some strains, evading the immune system may render the vaccine ineffective. Including response to vaccines
Thanks Facebook: Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn University
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