So we've got a press release from Botswana. Let's break it down.

>Variant first identified in 4 travelers through routine surveillance.
>Contact tracing is currently in progress. No news yet.
>All four had been vaccinated
>Rumors about the infected being HIV+ are false

As of now we do NOT know the origin of the variant or the nature of the original patients, just that it was first noticed by surveillance systems in South Africa.

Please discuss, preferably with sources. Leave uninformed shitposting to the other threads