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Queensland says new Covid variant was detected in Brisbane quarantine – The Guardian
Queensland health department says variant B1525 was identified in returned travellers in January
The Queensland government has revealed that a new coronavirus strain with a worrying set of mutations was detected among two returned travellers who were staying in hotel quarantine in Brisbane in January.
The variant, known as B1525, was picked up by researchers from the University of Edinburgh who were examining samples taken from GISAID, a global genomics database, in order to look for potential mutations in strains of Covid-19 that should be targeted in future testing.
B1525 differs from the…
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