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Virus mutations that emerged in Britain, South Africa and Brazil have alarmed EU authorities because of their increased infectivity
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EU leaders shift focus to the new coronavirus variants whose spread risks outpacing the hope that vaccines will put a quickish end to the pandemic in Europe, reports AFP. The chiefs will hold a summit by videolink to protect themselves from infection to raise political awareness on the seriousness of the situation with the new variants, an EU official said. Virus mutations that emerged in Britain, South Africa and Brazil have alarmed EU authorities because of their increased infectivity, prompting bans or restrictions on travellers from those countries.
Researchers are using satellite images processed with computer algorithms, which are trained with more than 1,000 images of elephants to help spot the creatures.
Scientists have combined satellite cameras with a convolutional neural network (CNN) to detect African elephants moving through forests and grasslands.