Niamh Griffin: Covid variants can change the game
Real-time development of Covid-19 mutations is a challenge
The UK variant, B1.1.7 now makes up 91% of cases and is estimated to be up to 70% more transmissible.
Mon, 08 Mar, 2021 - 06:30
Niamh Griffin, Health Correspondent
Just over a year into the pandemic, a face-off between vaccines and variants normally played out in laboratories is becoming a topic of conversation in parks and playgrounds.
It is unusual to have so many vaccines at this stage of a pandemic, the first novel coronavirus genome sequence was only seen publicly in January 2020. The variants started during the second wave late last summer, seemingly out of nowhere.
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