Oh shit—British 🇬🇧 traveler visits Japan 🇯🇵 and violates quarantine upon arrival—decides to go out to restaurants instead. Infects 2 other people with #COVID19 while going out. And guess which damn #SARSCoV2 strain it was? ➡️ the #B117 variant from UK. 🤦🏻♂️ nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO…
2) Kudos to fast action of Japanese epidemiologists. Japan 🇯🇵 also helped Brazil 🇧🇷 identify the new worrisome B11248 variant in 4 passengers flying from Brazil. Why is it worrisome? Because it has the bad E484K variant. #COVID19
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1348606324901359619
3) after the above quarantine breakage incident, and new U.K. #b117 variant, Japan 🇯🇵 now halting all foreign arrivals. abcnews.go.com/Health/wireSto…
4) As result of the news from Japan of the Brazil variant, WHO chief Dr Tedros steps out with a warning for the world.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1348710699036516355
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