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Prof Salim Abdool Karim has gone viral in a non-Covid-19 way.
He explained that the SA variant of Covid-19 should not be called that.
Prof Salim Abdool Karim urged people to call the new strain by its real name Covid-19 variant 501Y.V2. Photo credit: @caprisaofficialSource: Facebook
Earlier,Briefly.co.zareported that the South African strain of Covid-19 has also beenfound in the United States.
The virus has killed over 400 000 people in America, the highest death toll in the world.
These cases were found in South Carolina.
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However, these cases do not seem to be connected to each other.
Other variants that were originally found in Brazil and the United Kingdom have also been reported in the US.
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