France identifies a new variant of the coronavirus called IHU

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A new variant of the coronavirus has been identified for a few weeks by French researchers, derived from another whose first cases had been detected in the

last September.

The

, at the origin of this discovery, communicated on December 9 on its Twitter account that it had baptized this variant with its own acronym, IHU.

Its researchers published at the end of last month a pre-study, still pending validation by their peers, on this "IHU variant" called B.1.640.2 of which quite little is still known, taking into account the

According to this center specialized in infectious diseases, created and directed by the controversial doctor Didier Raoult, the first of these cases found by scientists occurred in the town of

A dozen are known to be associated

in the Marseille region

.

This variant contains

, that is to say even more than omicron, and is one of the two derivatives of B.1.640 that had been located at the end of September in the Republic of Congo.

A peculiar element of the IHU variant is that one of its mutations is associated with a

.

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