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It s unclear where exactly the new strain originated, but it appears to have come from the many climbers who chose to scale Mount Everest, leading to a Covid outbreak at the base camp earlier this year. So far, the variant has been detected in Japan, Nepal, India, Portugal, UK, and the US. Here s everything you need to know. A man receives a nasal swab COVID-19 test at Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on December 22, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) How did it spread? Firstly, you should know that strains are no longer named after their country of origin. The WHO has now moved to use Greek alphabets, such as Delta for the Indian variant. So far, the new strain doesn t appear to have enough known cases to give it a new name, so it is simply being referred to as Delta+K417N, i.e. a mutation of the Delta variant. So far, only a handful of cases have been recorded, all linked back to climbers in Nepal.

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