Göteborg: Väki ulkoilee auringossa. Jopa enemmän on lenkkeilijöitä nyt metsätielläkin. kaupungissa näyttää ulkotarjoilupaikat olevan kansoitettuja. Liseberg autiona.
Sydsvenskan antaa statistiikkaa: Vasta jäävuoren huippu näkyy.
Ruotsissa varmistettuja tapauksia 18 640. Kuolleita 2 194.
Globaalisti 2 844 712 varmistettua tapausta, kuolleita 201 315.
Euroopassa 1 070 956 varmistettua taapusta ja kuolleita 116 417.
Tanskassa 8575 varmistettua taapusta ja 422 kuollutta.
Suomessa THL:n mukaan 4576 varmistettua tapausta ja kuolleita 190.
Israelista kerrotaan että uusi virus omaa useita kymmeniä variaatioita.
https://www.jpost.com/health-science/coronavirus-has-mutated-into-at-least-30-different-strains-new-study-finds-625333
Coronavirus has mutated into at least 30 different strains new study finds
The study was carried out by 
Professor Li Lanjuan and colleagues from Zhejiang University in 
Hangzhou, China and published in a non-peer reviewed paper released on 
website medRxiv.org on Sunday.More than 30 different mutations were detected, of which 19 were previously undiscovered.
“Sars-CoV-2 has acquired mutations capable of substantially changing its pathogenicity,” Li wrote in the paper. The team discovered that some of the mutations could lead to functional changes in the virus’ spike protein, the South China Morning Post reported. Spike protein is the protein that the coronavirus uses to attach itself to human cells.Li
 's team infected cells with COVID-19 strains carrying different 
mutations, of which the most aggressive strains were found to generate 
as much as 270 times as much viral load as the weakest strains. The 
aggressive strains also killed the human cells the fastest.The results indicated "that the true diversity of the viral strains is still largely underappreciated,” Li wrote.The
 study could have future implications on the treatment of coronavirus, 
as several different strains have been found throughout the world. The United States,
 which has the world's worst death toll at 42,897, and 799,515 overall 
cases, has been struck by different mutations. New York, which itself 
had the worst death rate in the US, and the eastern coast show a strain 
of coronavirus similar to that found in Europe, whereas the western US 
has shown similarities with strains found in China.Coronavirus
 has so far been treated in hospitals worldwide as one disease and 
patients receive the same treatment regardless of the strain. It has 
been suggested by the team at Zhejiang University that defining 
mutations in different regions may change the way we approach combating 
the virus. “Drug and vaccine development,
 while urgent, need to take the impact of these accumulating mutations 
into account to avoid potential pitfalls,” the scientists said.
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