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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - The number of Hamburgers demonstrably affected by the British Corona mutation is lower than assumed.
If you have assumed twelve cases so far, there are now only seven, said a spokesman for the social authority on Tuesday of the German press agency.
Whole genome sequencing showed that only the seven out of 21 corona cases identified at Airbus could actually be assigned to the British variant B.1.1.7.
The other five corona cases of return travelers, originally assigned to the British variant, have not been confirmed.
Thus, according to the information, there has so far been a case with the South African mutation B.1.135 and another variant with the designation B.1.258 in addition to the seven cases with the British Corona variant.
The Brazilian variant B.1.1.28 has not yet been detected in Hamburg.
Clarification is still pending in a good twenty cases.
"Overall, the occurrence of mutation forms of the corona virus has so far not played a significant role according to the currently available knowledge," said the spokesman.
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