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New Covid-19 virus mutation detected in South Africa raises vaccine questions – The Straits Times
Dr Ravi Gupta, professor of microbiology at the University of Cambridge, said this mutation is ‘the most worrying of all’.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PARIS (AFP) – As the British coronavirus variant occupies countries’ pandemic plans due to its increased transmissibility, other mutations to the Sars-CoV-2 are provoking concern among scientists who are scrambling to work out if they will still respond to vaccines.
In particular, one mutation, known as E484K, detected initially in South Africa and on subsequent variants in Brazil and Japan, has raised alarm among researchers.
Dr Ravi Gupta, professor of microbiology at the University of Cambridge,…
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