A new strain of SARS-CoV-2 virus discovered in the UK. What the doctors say

Now, researchers are trying to determine whether the situation in the south of England, where the number of cases has increased, is caused by the key mutations they have detected in the strain of the virus.

What changes has SARS-CoV-2 undergone, according to experts

“It has a surprisingly large number of mutations, more than we would have expected, and some look interesting,” said Prof. Nick Loman of the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium, according to the BBC.

Scientists fear that this is an important adaptation of the corovirus and draw attention to two changes.

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