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December 23, 2020 22:46 IST
The mutation seems to provide a more favourable interaction with mouse ACE2 for docking and entry, they say
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The mutation seems to provide a more favourable interaction with mouse ACE2 for docking and entry, they say
In a preliminary report posted on December 19, Dr. Andrew Rambaut from the University of Edinburgh and others from the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK Consortium) say that the new variant has been spreading “rapidly” over the last four weeks. The COG-UK Consortium had analysed the genome data of SARS-CoV-2 virus and identified the variant.
Reaction in Nottinghamshire village near where new mutant Covid-19 strain has been detected
The strain has been detected in 57 areas across Britain - including near a Newark and Sherwood village
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A new study has found that the mutant strain of Covid-19 has been detected near Eakring in Nottinghamshire.
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Mutant strain of coronavirus was detected in Nottinghamshire village
A full list of 57 areas where it has been found has been released
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Dec. 23, 2020 2:03 pm ET
LONDON British public-health officials were mystified. Nationwide restrictions were driving down the spread of coronavirus across much of the country by late November. But in one part of southeast England infections were inexplicably surging.
Epidemiologists set out to investigate, at first assuming there had been some kind of superspreader event or that people were ignoring social-distancing rules at work, in illegal house parties, or elsewhere. They found nothing. Stumped, they turned to a team of scientists monitoring mutations in the virus’ genome.
On Dec. 8, the group, known as the Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium, found a new variant of the virus, with 23 mutations, in a sample taken from a patient in Kent, near the center of the outbreak in late September. They found the same variant in someone tested in London a day later.