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Another variant of the coronavirus, Mu Variant, is up on the WHO-identified list. One study finds its potential to be highly resistant to the COVID-19 vaccines.
The variant, which is also called B.1.621 and was first spotted in Colombia in the winter, was designated by the World Health Organization as a variant of interest on Monday.
The Delta variant was accounting for 99% of U.S. cases of COVID. [19] September 3: Greece confirmed its first six cases of the Mu variant in the country. Four of them are imported cases. [20] Hong Kong confirmed its first three cases of the Mu variant. Two of the patients – a 19-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman had flown in from Colombia ...
Sep. 8—The mu variant of the coronavirus, which may be better at evading protections offered by the available vaccines, has been found in nearly every state, including Hawaii, where its ...
The CDC reported that 66% of COVID-19 cases between April 11 and 24, 2021, were caused by the alpha variant. Pfizer-BioNTech, Johnson and Johnson, and Moderna said their vaccines prevented severe ...
For the week ending July 1, 10.6% of coronavirus tests statewide came back positive, up from 4.1% a month earlier. Last summer's positive test rate peaked at 13.1%, toward the end of August.
A study of samples collected in Manaus between November 2020 and January 2021, indicated that the Gamma variant is 1.4–2.2 times more transmissible and was shown to be capable of evading 25–61% of inherited immunity from previous coronavirus diseases, leading to the possibility of reinfection after recovery from an earlier COVID-19 ...
The continued spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spawned a Greek alphabet of variants - a naming system used by the World Health Organization to track concerning new mutations of the virus that ...