Colombian coronavirus variant identified in Slovakia

Laboratories in Slovakia have confirmed the presence of a new, so-called Colombian variant of the novel coronavirus in the country, Public Health Authority (UVZ) spokesperson Dasa Rackova told TASR on Friday. "We've identified three cases as being of the so-called Colombian, i.e. B.1.621 variant, based on bioinformatics analyses carried out by our partners from the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of Comenius University in Bratislava," virologist Boris Klempa of the Biomedical Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) said.