尼日利亚科学家研究国家的冠状病毒变体
![In this photo taken on Friday, Dec. 25, 2020, Virologist Sunday Omilabu speaks, during an interview with The Associated Press, in Lagos, Nigeria. A Nigerian scientist has spent the holiday season in his laboratory doing genetic sequencing to learn more about the country's COVID-19 variant, as cases increase in the country. Virologist Sunday Omilabu says the information he gathers about the variant will help battle the spread of the disease in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country with 196 million people. (AP Photo/Lekan Oyekanmi) 尼日利亚科学家研究国家的冠状病毒变体](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2021/nigerianscie.jpg)
尼日利亚科学家花了假期在实验室做基因测序来了解更多关于该国COVID-19变体,随着案件的增加。
病毒学家周日Omilabu说他收集的信息变异将帮助对抗疾病的传播在尼日利亚,非洲人口最多的国家有1.96亿人。
尼日利亚已确认89163 COVID-19病例,包括1302例死亡,根据数据周日从非洲疾病控制和预防中心。
“变异的发现在英国和南非,他们是不同的变体在尼日利亚发现,“Omilabu说,谁说这不是不寻常的变异病毒变异和原因。
尼日利亚是看到更多感染COVID-19但尚不确定如果是变种,中心主任Omilambu说人类和人畜共患病毒学拉各斯大学医学院的教学医院。
临床“我们可以说是我们让更多的人有严重的症状和体征,”他说,描述一个人如何传播疾病四个或五个家庭成员,这是一个传播率高于早已经被记录。
![In this photo taken on Friday Dec. 25, 2020, Virologist Sunday Omilabu in a lab, during an interview with The Associated Press in Lagos, Nigeria. A Nigerian scientist has spent the holiday season in his laboratory doing genetic sequencing to learn more about the country's COVID-19 variant, as cases increase in the country. Virologist Sunday Omilabu says the information he gathers about the variant will help battle the spread of the disease in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country with 196 million people. (AP Photo/Lekan Oyekanmi) 尼日利亚科学家研究国家的冠状病毒变体](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2021/1-nigerianscie.jpg)
“这告诉我们,一些正在发生的事情。有我们记录激增,但我们还没有序列的隔离,”来确定传输引起的变异,增加Omilabu说。
“我认为我们需要让我们的心平静下来,会有更多的变异,”他说。
“我们需要监测病毒,我们需要序列。如果我们序列那么我们会有更多的信息在流通,然后,当然,我们需要继续监测,我们需要监控环境中活跃的病毒是如何……公共卫生专家,他们有很多工作要做,那么政府必须支持所有这些。”
实验室工作学习更多的变体,尼日利亚人应该保持警惕以避免传播病毒,他说。
![People wait for transportation at a bus stop in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday Dec. 31, 2020. A Nigerian scientist has spent the holiday season in his laboratory doing genetic sequencing to learn more about the country's COVID-19 variant, as cases increase in the country. Virologist Sunday Omilabu says the information he gathers about the variant will help battle the spread of the disease in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country with 196 million people. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) 尼日利亚科学家研究国家的冠状病毒变体](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2021/2-nigerianscie.jpg)
“人们仍然去聚会。他们仍然去俱乐部没有戴上口罩,”他说。“我们谈论社会距离,人们不尊重。我们谈论使用口罩。人们不这样做。你看到他们在市场的地方,他们并没有这样做。现在你怎么控制它?”
与COVID-19变异出现在尼日利亚和南非,世界卫生组织说非洲需要做更多的基因测序,如Omilabu在做什么。
“新COVID-19变体的出现是常见的。然而,那些有更高的传输速度或潜在致病性增加非常有关。至关重要的调查正在进行中全面理解新突变病毒的行为,引导相应反应,”博士说Matshidiso Moeti,世卫组织非洲区域主任。
新变异已成为COVID-19感染是在上升的47个非洲国家,近7月达到峰值大陆看到,她说。在过去的28天,10阿尔及利亚、博茨瓦纳、布基纳法索、刚果、埃塞俄比亚、肯尼亚、纳米比亚、尼日利亚、南非和乌干达报道新病例的数量最多,占90%的感染在非洲,她说。
![A woman wearing a face mask to protect against coronavirus, walks on a street, in Lagos, Nigeria , Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020. A Nigerian scientist has spent the holiday season in his laboratory doing genetic sequencing to learn more about the country's COVID-19 variant, as cases increase in the country. Virologist Sunday Omilabu says the information he gathers about the variant will help battle the spread of the disease in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country with 196 million people. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) 尼日利亚科学家研究国家的冠状病毒变体](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2021/3-nigerianscie.jpg)
这种新病毒变种在南非现在占主导地位的人,似乎更多的传染性,根据约翰•Nkengasong非洲疾病控制和预防中心的主任。本周早些时候南非超过100万例确诊病例,是领先的欧洲大陆的新的COVID-19激增,这是未来“卷土重来”,Nkengasong周四表示。
“变异的特点,这种类型的RNA病毒,“Nkengasong简报的记者说。“我们做这种病毒测序,变异越多我们将会看到……我们仍乐观地认为,不同的疫苗仍将有效对抗这些变异。”
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