South Korea has identified all strains of the virus since the start of the epidemic. (File)
Seoul:
All recent coronavirus clusters in South Korea are sown mainly with the highly infectious GH strain of the virus, which is thought to spread six times faster than other types of COVID-19, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) from the Ministry of Health. Monday.
In early May, South Korea eased the lockdown, but then reimposed some coronavirus restrictions into new local clusters in Seoul and the neighboring province of Gyeonggi-do.
Since May, health authorities have confirmed 270 positive cases of COVID-19 related to a young man who visited several nightclubs in Seoul and more than 150 others linked to a retail logistics center in the city of Bucheon de la Gyeonggi-do province. Most cases of both clusters are linked to the GH strain.
The KCDC sequenced the genomes of 526 patients positive for the coronavirus and the GH staining was confirmed in 333 cases.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), COVID-19 is classified into seven different strains – S, V, L, G, GH, GR and O (others) – and GH is the most aggressive of them. .
South Korea has identified all strains of the virus since the start of the epidemic, with the exception of strain L. Stains G, GH and GR began to spread in the country from April to May.
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