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Covid Brazil variant ‘may spread more easily’

By health | March 2, 2021
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Infectious diseases expert Prof Ester Sabino, from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, said: “You need many introductions [of a virus] to start an epidemic. Six is very few. I would say if you take care and do contact tracing, this is going to decrease.”

BBC News – Health

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