Coronavirus: Chinese student found to have new variant on return from Britain | South China Morning Post
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A Chinese student was identified as having contracted the new strain of the coronavirus after returning home from Britain. Photo: Xinhua A Chinese student was identified as having contracted the new strain of the coronavirus after returning home from Britain.The 18-year-old male, who returned home to Guangzhou, the capital of south China’s Guangdong province, on December 4, is the second Chinese to contract the B.1.1.7 variant after studying in Britain, Guangzhou Daily reported on Sunday.
The discovery was made after the provincial disease control and prevention centre ran gene-sequencing tests on all throat swab samples it had collected since September, the report said.
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