BRASILIA, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's Health Ministry on Friday confirmed the country's first case of reinfection with a new variant of the COVID-19, detected in the northern state of Amazonas.
The Brazilian Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, the largest medical research center in Latin America, on Jan. 12 identified a new variant of the COVID-19 in a 29-year-old woman with mild symptoms of the disease, the ministry said in a statement.
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