What do we know about the new Covid strain? Like all viruses, Sars-CoV-2 changes. Like a manuscript that is being endlessly copied, letter by letter, it accumulates typos – changes in its genetic code. Compared with other viruses, this one changes at quite a slow rate.
But we have seen a new version of the virus’s genetic code – its core manuscript – emerge in London and South East England, and it has some interesting properties.
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