2023-11-08 12:08:04
02:03 PM Wednesday 08 November 2023
Ahmed Karim wrote:
The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population commented on what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States announced about the emergence of a new mutant of the JN.1 Corona virus, which it considered a source of concern that may spread the Corona virus again.
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Dr. Wagdi Amin, Director of the Chest Diseases Department at the Ministry of Health, said that the new Corona variant JN.1 is a mutant version of BA.2.86 that contains a total of 20 mutations on the spike protein, which was a source of great concern when it was first discovered because the spike protein is What the virus uses to attach to host cells, JN.1 is said to have one change from BA.2.86.
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Amin added that the JN.1 variant constitutes less than 0.1% of coronavirus cases in the United States at the present time, and was first discovered in September 2023 in the United States and was discovered in 11 other countries, pointing out that no cases of the virus were discovered in Egypt until now.
“Although BA.2.86 and BA.2.1 look very different because of the way the variants are named, there is only one change between JN.1 and BA.2.86 in the spike protein,” he stressed.
The spike protein is also part of a virus targeted by vaccines, Amin explained, meaning the vaccines should work against JN.1 and BA.2.86 similarly but are still being studied.
Regarding the presence of new symptoms of the new Corona variant, the Director of the Chest Diseases Department at the Ministry of Health said that, so far, no new symptoms associated with infection due to JN.1 have appeared, and this may be due to the decrease in the number of cases associated with this new variant since it is a subvariant of the Omicron variant. The symptoms that appear in it are completely similar to its predecessors.
He stressed the need to be careful about signs such as sore throat, fatigue, muscle or body pain, headache, fever, cough, and difficulty breathing, but it is spreading rapidly like the previous variant.
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