New variant of coronavirus now also in the Rotterdam region | Inland

The GGD is still investigating and was unable to provide further information about how the patient became infected. The fact that multiple infections of the new variant would be found was ‘in line with expectations’.

Amsterdam

On Tuesday it was announced that two people from the Amsterdam region had contracted the new corona variant. The infections were from the first half of December and have nothing to do with each other. Source and contact research into these two Dutch people showed that there is no connection whatsoever with the United Kingdom.

The mutation of the virus is currently circulating in the United Kingdom and does not seem more dangerous, but a lot more contagious. A new variant of the corona virus is also circulating in South Africa, showing similarities with the ‘British mutation’.

Usual advice

Regardless of the variant of the virus, the usual agreements for home isolation of the infected person and his or her close contacts apply. RIVM carries out a random sample every week and in this way keeps an eye on the distribution of the new variant. Marc Kaptein, medical director of Pfizer Netherlands, said this week that he was almost certain that the corona vaccine will also work against the mutated virus.

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