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New COVID-19 mutation in Finland may escape PCR tests | Daily Sabah – Daily Sabah

Virus variants have been scientists' main struggle while vaccine efforts started to pick up steam around the world against the global COVID-19…

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Virus variants have been scientists’ main struggle while vaccine efforts started to pick up steam around the world against the global COVID-19 pandemic, and now a new strain in Finland may have mutated in a way that enables it to escape detection in polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, according to experts.
Helsinki-based Vita Laboratories said the variant Fin-796H was different from strains previously found in South Africa and the U.K. and that the new mutated coronavirus may not show up in PCR…

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