Variant Evades News Today

>> reporter: more than 30 mutations say scientists, in the spike protein alone. its a worrying sign. scientists are working in labs like this one in south africa scrambling to confirm if the variant evades immunity from previous infections or crucially, if it weakens vaccine efficacy. definitive answers could take weeks. >> we think it may be a more times admissible virus and it may have some immune escape. now, we dont know for sure but thats what it looks like. >> the european commission has p...

Short time ago, saying that they have a high probability that a travel alert from south africa will test positive for this variant. though they still have to do the full sequencing. a lot is not known about this variant and theres a lot scientists are concerned about. in a world fatigued with waves of covid-19, now renewed fear. in south africa, scientists identifying the troubling new variant of the virus. that is dominating infections here. >> the variant is of serious concern which is this no...

Identifying a troubling new variant of the virus that is dominating infections here. >> variant of serious concern which is now driving this spike in numbers. >> reporter: more than 30 mutations, say scientists, in the spike protein alone. its a worrying sign. scientists are working in labs like this one in south africa scrambling to confirm if the variant evades immunity from previous infections or crucially if it weakens vaccine efficacy. definitive answers could take weeks. >> we think it may...