A variant of the SARS-COV-2 Virus- currently termed 501.V2 Variant, has been identified by our genomics scientists here in South Africa. This genomics team, led by the Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform, or KRISP, has sequenced hundreds of samples from across the country since the beginning of the pandemic in March. They noticed that a particular variant has increasingly dominated the findings of the samples collected in the past two months.
No need to panic about the new COVID-19 variant
June 10, 2025
The newly identified SARS-CoV-2 variant, NB.1.8.1, is an Omicron-descendent lineage derived from the recombinant
