The world is still battling a highly contagious strain of New coronavirus called Omicron which is leading to an increasein. Covid-19 infections worldwide.
Now French scientists have identified a new and more rapidly spreading Covid-19 strain.
New Covid-19 variant Named IHU, B.1.640.2
this coronavirus variant has discover by academics at the Institute IHU Mediterranee Infection Researchers say it contains 46 mutations .
(more than Omicron) which makes it resistant to Covid-19 vaccines and a more rapidly spreading infectious disease.
Marseille has had at least 12 cases of the new coronavirus variant and has link to a trip to the.
African country of Cameroon Although the Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus is still the dominant coronavirus strain in most parts of the world, the threat of the IHU variant is increasing rapidly.
B.1.640.2 has not observe in other countries or has not be label as a type
Under investigation by the World Health Organization (WHO)
According to a paper posted on MedRxiv, genomes have obtain by next-generation sequencing with Oxford Nanopore Technologies on Gridian devices.
The research paper states Fourteen amino acid substitutions including N501Y and E484K and 9 extinction spikes are located in the protein.
This genotype pattern create a new pangolin lineage called B16402 a phylogenetic group for the old B1640 lineage which has be rename to B16401.
Epidemiologist Eric FiegelDing posted a lengthy Twitter thread in which he said that new variants keep coming.
up but that doesn’t mean they will be more dangerous.
“What makes a variant more famous and dangerous is its ability to multiply because of the number of mutations it has in relation to the original virus,” he said.
The doctor added, “This is what happens when it becomes a ‘type of anxiety’ – like Omicron, which is more contagious and more past immunity. It remains to be seen in which category this new variant falls.”
The Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus detect in a sample taken from South Africa on November 24 last year. Since then, it has spread to more than 100 countries. It has infected about 1,900 people in India.