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World Health Organization officials to hold a press conference on the coronavirus pandemic Monday, as more countries report cases involving infectious new mutations of the virus.
Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases said on Sunday that it has found a new variant of the coronavirus in four passengers arriving from Brazil. The institute said the new species appears to have some of the same traits, such as increased infectivity, like other variations discovered in the UK and South Africa.
Meanwhile, the United States has found at least 63 cases of Covid-19 with the new, more contagious strain of the virus first identified in the UK known as B.1.1.7, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. The variant does not appear to make patients sicker or increase their risk of death, health officials said.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, the coronavirus has infected more than 90.4 million people around the world and killed at least 1.9 million people.
—CNBCs Sam Meredith contributed to this report.
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