{"id":24551,"date":"2020-12-21T11:12:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/?p=24551"},"modified":"2020-12-21T14:22:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T14:22:38","slug":"afrique-du-sud-une-nouvelle-variante-du-coronavirus-identifiee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/?p=24551","title":{"rendered":"Afrique du Sud : une nouvelle variante du Coronavirus identifi\u00e9e"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"texte textearticle\"><strong>La \u00ab\u00a0variante 501.V2\u00a0\u00bb a \u00e9t\u00e9 identifi\u00e9e par des chercheurs sud-africains et signal\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019OMS. Elle serait \u00e0 l\u2019origine de la seconde vague de contamination plus s\u00e9v\u00e8re avec davantage de patients plus jeunes qui d\u00e9veloppent des formes graves de la Covid-19.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"texte textearticle\">L\u2019annonce de cette nouvelle variante de Coronavirus a \u00e9t\u00e9 faite dans un communiqu\u00e9 vendredi par le ministre de la sant\u00e9 Zwelini Mkhize. Les chercheurs qui ont fait la d\u00e9couverte ont s\u00e9quenc\u00e9 des centaines d\u2019\u00e9chantillons depuis le d\u00e9but de la pand\u00e9mie dans le pays en mars, et remarqu\u00e9 qu\u2019une variante particuli\u00e8re domine les r\u00e9sultats des deux derniers mois.<\/p>\n<p class=\"texte textearticle\">L\u2019\u00e9quipe de scientifiques dirig\u00e9e par le professeur Tulio de Oliveira du centre KRISP \u00e0 l\u2019universit\u00e9 du Kwazulu-Natal, a partag\u00e9 les recherches avec la communaut\u00e9 scientifique et l\u2019Organisation mondiale de la sant\u00e9 (OMS). La variante 501.V2 est potentiellement responsable de l\u2019augmentation rapide et du d\u00e9veloppement de formes graves de la maladie, avec plus de jeunes contamin\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"texte textearticle\">Les recherches ont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 que 80 \u00e0 90% des diff\u00e9rentes variantes \u00e9tudi\u00e9es renvoient \u00e0 la \u00ab\u00a0variante 501.V2\u00a0\u00bb. Selon l\u2019\u00e9quipe, elle augmente\u00a0les charges virales de l\u2019organisme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"texte textearticle\">\u00ab\u00a0<em>Lorsque nous regardons cette nouvelle variante, le score au scanner est inf\u00e9rieur \u00e0 celui des pr\u00e9c\u00e9dentes. Un score plus faible signifie une quantit\u00e9 plus importante de virus. Cela signifie que la quantit\u00e9 de virus dans le pr\u00e9l\u00e8vement est plus \u00e9lev\u00e9 (\u2026) Lorsque nous faisons un pr\u00e9l\u00e8vement, nous recevons une charge virale plus \u00e9lev\u00e9e chez les patients contamin\u00e9s \u00e0 la variante 501.V2<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 le professeur Salim Abdool Karim, membre de l\u2019\u00e9quipe scientifique.<\/p>\n<p class=\"texte textearticle\">L\u2019Afrique du Sud est le pays le plus touch\u00e9 du continent, et comptait vendredi soir plus de 24\u00a0000 morts et 900\u00a0000 cas positifs. Toutefois, les chercheurs rassurent que le respect strict des gestes barri\u00e8res aideront \u00e0 limiter la propagation du nouveau virus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"texte textearticle\">Ils ont \u00e9galement alert\u00e9 le Royaume-Uni, l\u2019Australie, et plusieurs autres pays pour trouver une variante similaire responsable de l\u2019augmentation rapide des cas de contamination dans le monde.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Avec Agence Ecofin<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"La \u00ab\u00a0variante 501.V2\u00a0\u00bb a \u00e9t\u00e9 identifi\u00e9e par des chercheurs sud-africains et signal\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019OMS. Elle serait \u00e0 l\u2019origine de la seconde vague de contamination plus s\u00e9v\u00e8re avec davantage de patients plus jeunes qui d\u00e9veloppent des formes graves de la Covid-19. L\u2019annonce de cette nouvelle variante de Coronavirus a \u00e9t\u00e9 faite dans un communiqu\u00e9 vendredi par [...]","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override":[{"single_blog_custom":"","sidebar":"","second_sidebar":"","share_position":"","share_float_style":"","post_date_format":"","post_date_format_custom":"","post_reading_time_wpm":"","zoom_button_out_step":"1","zoom_button_in_step":"1","number_popup_post":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"","single_post_gallery_size":""}],"trending_post_position":"","trending_post_label":"","sponsored_post_label":"","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_review":[],"enable_review":"","type":"","name":"","summary":"","brand":"","sku":"","good":[],"bad":[],"score_override":"","override_value":"","rating":[],"price":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[268,4166,6612],"class_list":["post-24551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-health","tag-afrique-du-sud","tag-coronavirus","tag-nouvelle-variante"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24552,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24551\/revisions\/24552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}