Tag: Covid-19 mutation

• Wednesday, March 17th 2021 - 08:39 UTC

  Regular booster vaccines will be needed against Covid-19, because of mutations

  

  Regular booster vaccines against the coronavirus will be needed because of mutations that make it more transmissible and better able to evade human immunity, the head of Britain's effort to sequence the virus' genomes said.

• Wednesday, December 16th 2020 - 08:32 UTC

  British scientists trying to determine if Covid-19 mutation is linked to other strains

  

  British scientists are trying to establish whether the rapid spread in southern England of a new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 is linked to key mutations they have detected in the strain, they said on Tuesday.

• Friday, October 30th 2020 - 08:22 UTC

  Spanish coronavirus strain has spread across with the second wave in Europe

  

  A coronavirus strain that emerged in Spain in June has spread across Europe and now makes up a large proportion of infections in several countries, researchers said, highlighting the role of travel in the pandemic and the need to track mutations.