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Coronavirus: Is this Australia s new defence against COVID-19 variants?

Advertisement Deep inside a layer of concrete and a few centimetres of steel sits a lab it is hoped will be key to keeping Australia safe from vaccine-busting coronavirus variants. Under these ultra-secure conditions at the University of NSW’s Kirby Institute, just south of Sydney’s CBD, a team of scientists is quickly screening the growing tide of mutant viruses that reach Australia’s borders. The variant lab – seen here through thick protective glass. Credit:James Brickwood Are they more infectious? Worse, do they evade our vaccine defences? The lab’s head, Associate Professor Stuart Turville, just finished work on B.1.617.1, the first Indian variant to raise concern.

More than 200 COVID-19 vaccines are still in development, with some now focusing on mutant strains and older people

1 / of 3 More than 200 COVID-19 vaccines are still in development, with some now focusing on mutant strains and older people By the Specialist Reporting Team s Nick Sas Posted SatSaturday 23 updated SatSaturday 23 Vaccine manufacturers behind the frontrunners have started to look for points of difference. ( Share Print text only Cancel Experts say the best COVID-19 vaccines may not actually exist yet, with researchers set to learn from the first rollouts and evolve the science to target new mutant strains and specific populations such as older people. Key points: Vaccine makers have started focusing on the mutant strains that have appeared in Brazil, the UK and South Africa

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