In South Korea, a particularly contagious strain of coronavirus was reported

All new centers of coronavirus distribution in South Korea arose due to the so-called strain GH, which is a mutation of strain S and the rate of distribution of which is six times higher than the previous species of coronavirus. It is reported by KBS with reference to representatives of the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). As a result of sequencing the virus genome from materials from 526 patients with coronavirus, KCDC representatives were able to find out that in 63.3% or 333 cases the nucleotide sequence corresponding to the GH group was found, 127 cases to group V, 33 cases to group S, 19 cases to group GR, ten cases to group G, four cases to other groups (group O). Currently, coronavirus is classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) into seven strains of S, V, L, G, GH, GR and O (others). In South Korea, all groups except L.