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Nepal variant mutation: What we know about the new coronavirus threat – Yahoo News Australia

The ‘Nepal variant’ has been blamed for the UK government’s decision to remove Portugal from the travel ‘green list’.

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A mutation of the Delta variant of coronavirus has been informally labelled the ‘Nepal variant’ and is under investigation by Public Health England (Getty)
Reports around the emergence of a possible new mutation of coronavirus – which could be more resistant to vaccines – was cited on Thursday as a factor Portugal was taken off the ‘green list’ of travel destinations for Brits.
Transport secretary Grant Shapps said concerns around “a sort of Nepal mutation of the Indian variant that’s been detected”…

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