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‘Highly Transmissible’ Covid-19 Variant in UK Shows New, Concerning South African Mutation – Yahoo India News

Tests conducted on samples of the Kent variant, named after the region in England where it was first detected, show a mutation, called ‘E484K’, already…

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The highly transmissible, possibly deadlier variant of Covid-19 that is making vaccines weak was detected in southern England at the end of last year. The same strain is showing signs of further mutation, UK scientists warned.
Tests conducted on samples of the Kent variant, named after the region in England where it was first detected, show a mutation, called E484K, already detected in the South Africa and Brazil variants.
There are fears that this mutation could evade the immune system and that…

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