A mutated coronavirus strain causes most new COVID-19 infections in Europe and was spread within the continent by tourists, scientists say – Business Insider Australia

• Most new COVID-19 cases in Europe come from a mutated variant of the coronavirus spread from Spain by tourists, scientists said in a report Thursday.
• The coronavirus variant was first identified in northeastern Spain in June and was carried abroad by tourists and other travellers, the scientists said.
• There isn’t enough data to suggest this variant, known as 20A.EU1, is more deadly, the team from the University of Basel, ETH Zürich in Basel, and SeqCOVID in Spain said.
• The variant has been identified…

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