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Coronavirus: Is this Australia s new defence against COVID-19 variants?

Advertisement Deep inside a layer of concrete and a few centimetres of steel sits a lab it is hoped will be key to keeping Australia safe from vaccine-busting coronavirus variants. Under these ultra-secure conditions at the University of NSW’s Kirby Institute, just south of Sydney’s CBD, a team of scientists is quickly screening the growing tide of mutant viruses that reach Australia’s borders. The variant lab – seen here through thick protective glass. Credit:James Brickwood Are they more infectious? Worse, do they evade our vaccine defences? The lab’s head, Associate Professor Stuart Turville, just finished work on B.1.617.1, the first Indian variant to raise concern.

Coronavirus mutates but is actually stable

Coronavirus mutates but is actually stable Current crop of vaccines shouldn’t be affected. By Rebecca Rockett, Alicia Arnott and Fabienne Brilot-Turville, University of Sydney “Coronavirus” has already established itself as the scary new word of 2020. Add the word “mutant”, and you’ve got an even stronger candidate for the scary new phrase of 2021. One fear is that critical parts of the coronavirus genome will mutate, making any vaccine obsolete before it’s widely rolled out next year. But how much of an issue is this really? As we’ll see, SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, mutates, as do all viruses. But unlike other RNA viruses, it’s actually quite stable.

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