B1617 Covid-19 variant becoming increasingly dominant worldwide, experts warn
And this will not be the last time that the virus mutates, the experts added. Professor Teo Yik Ying, dean of the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, told The Straits Times on Saturday (May 29): "What is frightening is the speed at which this variant is able to spread and circulate widely within the community, often surpassing the capability of contact-tracing units to track and isolate exposed contacts to break the transmission chains. "It has the potential to unleash a bigger pandemic storm than the world has previously seen." B1617 has mutated to...
Source: straitstimes.com