Denmark on Saturday found its first case of a more contagious coronavirus variant from South Africa, and saw a rise in the number of infections with the highly transmissible B117 variant first identified in Britain, health authorities said, APA reports citing Reuters.
The Nordic country extended a lockdown for three weeks on Wednesday in a bid to curtail the spread of the new variant from Britain, which authorities expect to be the dominant one by mid-February.
Denmark has become a front-runner in monitoring coronavirus mutations by running most positive tests through genome sequencing analysis.
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