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Significantly different and it has 32 mutations around the spiked proteins, the area of the virus that important and when its infectious, and some of these mutations we know about because we see them in other variants but they mutations are totally new and its this constellation of mutations that we dont understand well yet, so thats why concern at the moment and of course we are looking at the transmission patterns in south africa where it has seemed to displace which had been dominant in all t...

So far, we dont know whether the variant causes more severe disease, whether vaccines will be less effective, or whether drugs wont work. its the sheer number and type of mutations that has scientists who are troubled. some of them have never been seen in combinations like this before, and many of them we have seen in various variants of concern so far, but it is the complexity of the mutations that we are seeing today, and the effect that it may have won both the immune response and transmissib...

Already going on a lot of information being shared, especially from south african colleagues and i think that is something we really have to recognise and the openness and transparency and the meaningfulness of sharing this information which means we will have a global implication stop as all countries have found and learned to their cost when certain countries have not been as open about information, notjust of new variants, but case numbers and in the end a heavy price. find variants, but cas...