France announced the discovery of a new strain of Corona virus in the Brutani region (northwest) of the country, while the World Health Organization said that it is still conducting a safety review of the "AstraZeneca" vaccine against the Corona virus.

The General Directorate of Health in France said, "The new strain was found at the end of last February in the Hospital of Lannion," according to the local radio website, Blue of France.

The directorate added - in a statement issued late on Monday evening - that the problem of the new strain lies in the difficulty of noticing it during the usual tests to detect the virus.

She indicated that the new "Proton" strain was found in 8 cases, although their PCR tests were negative, according to the same source.

In the context, the French authorities called on the World Health Organization to put this "new mutant" under study and study, as happened with the second strain that appeared in Britain, Brazil and South Africa, last December.

She pointed out that the French health authorities have begun in-depth investigations into this new strain.

As of Tuesday morning, the total number of deaths in Corona around the world reached more than two million and 600 thousand, while injuries exceeded 120 million and 800 thousand.

AstraZeneca problems

In a related context, the World Health Organization said that it is still conducting a safety review of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine against Coronavirus, which was developed by AstraZeneca in cooperation with the University of Oxford in Britain.

The organization said - in a statement - that the progress of the investigation so far shows that the control system in its manufacture is still working, and that effective controls are in place.

The WHO's Global Vaccine Safety Advisory Committee confirmed that it is reviewing the available data, and that it is in close contact with the European Medicines Agency.

On Monday, the World Health Organization said that "there is no evidence of accidents involving blood clots caused by the AstraZeneca vaccine."

Germany, France and Spain joined more than 10 European countries that decided to suspend the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine as a precaution, after reports that people who received this vaccine had blood clots.

AstraZeneca, in turn, defended the vaccine, but stressed on the other hand that patient safety was "a top priority."

Casualties soar in Germany

And in Germany, an expert at the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases said, today, Tuesday, that Corona virus infections in Germany are increasing steadily, adding that the risk of the AstraZeneca vaccine is relatively low.

Data published by the institute showed that the number of confirmed cases of Coronavirus in Germany reached 5,480, bringing the total to two million 581,329 infections.

The figures also showed an increase in deaths by 238, bringing the total deaths since the start of the pandemic to 73,656 cases.

"We are in the midst of the third wave of the Corona pandemic, this is indisputable," Dirk Brockmann, an epidemiologist at the institute, told the German TV channel ARD, "At this stage we have eased restrictions, and this accelerates the steady growth in infections."

On Monday, Germany stopped vaccination with the AstraZeneca vaccine, being the latest among several European countries to stop vaccinating with this vaccine after reports of some of those who received it had strokes.

A government spokesman said that Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to meet state governors tomorrow, Wednesday, to discuss delaying the use of family doctors in vaccination campaigns to prevent Corona until the European Medicines Agency finishes its review of the AstraZeneca vaccine.