The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Chikwe Ihekwazu, has said that a new variant of COVID19 has been detected in Nigeria and 15 other countries.

Ihekweazu who disclosed this on Monday, February 22, at the press briefing of the presidential Task Force on COVID19, said the new strain, B.1.2.5 which is different from the highly infectious B.1.1.7 has not been described as a variant of concern.

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