Highly contagious coronavirus   mutation doubled – Gorgas

 The mutation of the new  coronavirus that arrived in Panama, called D614G, has doubled in recent months according to a report from  the Gorgas Memorial Institue,

The Institute highlights that “70% of cases were found with the D614G mutation, this variant is not the one found in England, however, it is also highly contagious.”

Researchern Alexander Martínez, Head of the Gorgas Genomics and Proteomics Research department, highlighted that this percentage is the product of a random sampling of cases in December of 75 sequenced samples.

“That implies that this variant doubled the proportion of people it has potentially infected. In July it was a little less than 30%, ”explained Martínez.

He added that it seeks to evaluate the places where more cases occurred, and thus explore whether there was a responsible variant, either those described in the United Kingdom or South Africa, “and a variant that we already knew in the country was found, however with a much higher frequency ”.