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Scientists say it would take years for virus to evolve enough to render Covid vaccines as impotent ANI | Updated: Dec 21, 2020 13:17 IST
New York [US], December 21 (ANI):As the new variant has been surfaced that causes COVID-19, experts urged caution, saying it would take years, not months, for the virus to evolve enough to render the current vaccines impotent.
They added that no one should worry that there is going to be a single catastrophic mutation that suddenly renders all immunity useless.
According to The New York Times (NYT), scientists are worried about these variants but are not surprised by them. Researchers have recorded thousands of modifications in the genetic material of the coronavirus as it has hopscotched across the world.
updated: Dec 21 2020, 07:47 ist
Just as vaccines begin to offer hope for a path out of the pandemic, officials in Britain this past weekend sounded an urgent alarm about what they called a highly contagious new variant of the coronavirus circulating in England.
Citing the rapid spread of the virus through London and surrounding areas, Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed the country’s most stringent lockdown since March.
“When the virus changes its method of attack, we must change our method of defence,” he said.
Train stations in London filled with crowds of people scrambling to leave the city as the restrictions went into effect. On Sunday, European countries began closing their borders to travellers from the United Kingdom, hoping to shut out the new iteration of the pathogen.
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Scientists are worried about these variants but not surprised by them.PHOTO: REUTERS
PublishedDec 21, 2020, 6:40 am SGT
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