WHO says C.1.2. COVID-19 variant doesn't seem to be spreading

GENEVA (Reuters) - a brand new coronavirus variant that was first detected in South Africa in may additionally does not look like spreading, the area fitness agency mentioned on Tuesday, adding it become monitoring the variant because the virus evolves.

"It doesn't look like expanding in circulation," WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris informed a U.N. briefing, adding the variant labelled C.1.2. become no longer presently categorised as a "variant of difficulty" by the U.N. fitness agency.

(Reporting with the aid of Emma Thomasson; editing by way of Stephanie Nebehay)