New covid-19 strains: What scientists know about coronavirus variants
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Vials of Covishield, AstraZeneca-Oxford s Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine are pictured inside a lab where they are being manufactured at India s Serum Institute in Pune on January 22, 2021. (Photo by Punit PARANJPE / AFP)
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. Updated: 23 Jan 2021, 02:01 PM IST The Wall Street Journal
New versions of the novel coronavirus are spreading across the globe. Researchers fear the new lineages may spread more easily and one may be more deadly.
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Scientists around the world are scrambling to learn more about previously unknown variants of the coronavirus that seem to spread from person to person more readily than other versions of the Covid-19-causing pathogen including one variant that may also be more deadly.
Why the New Covid-19 Variants Could Be More Infectious
8 countries in the @WHO Europe region have now identified the new COVID-19 variant VOC-202012/01
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. Updated: 17 Jan 2021, 12:37 PM IST The Wall Street Journal
Mutations in the virus’s appendage have created potentially more infectious versions of the pathogen, including one currently circulating around the world
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As viruses replicate, they change, or mutate. Some mutations give these viral variants an edge, such as being better able to latch on to and infect human cells. That’s what scientists think happened with the coronavirus variant that swept through the U.K. recently and which is now showing up in states across the U.S.