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Covid-19: India’s hunt for ‘worrying’ coronavirus variants – Yahoo News Australia
India is scaling up efforts to find new variants before they could wreak havoc in the community.
Hundreds of thousands of viral genomes have been analysed across the world
Like all viruses, the coronavirus that has caused the deadly pandemic keeps changing in small ways as it passes from one person to another.
The vast majority of these mutations are inconsequential, and don’t alter the way the virus behaves.
But some mutations trigger changes in the spike protein that the virus uses to latch on to and enter human cells – these variants could potentially be more infectious, cause more severe…
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