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    Coronavirus last minute

  • Variants.

    British strain teams up with South African mutation to tackle vaccines

  • In study.

    The efficacy of vaccines against the new strains of Covid, under the magnifying glass

  • Experts

    "It will take two years for the new strains to force a change in vaccines"

Scientists have followed the genetic evolution of SARS-CoV-2 more closely than any other virus in history.

During most of 2020 they observed a slow mutation rate, with one or two variations every month, but at the end of last year the first variants with multiple

mutations appeared, some associated with a greater capacity for propagation

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The most widely accepted hypothesis to explain this outbreak is that the virus is mutating more because it has had more time.

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