CNBC: WHO classifies triple-mutant Covid variant from India as global health risk
* A WHO official said Monday it is reclassifying the highly contagious triple-mutant Covid variant spreading in India as a “variant of concern” at the global level.
* Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead for Covid-19, said the agency will provide more details in its situation report Tuesday.
* She added preliminary studies show the variant can spread more easily than the original virus and that there is some evidence it may able to evade vaccines.
A World Health Organization official said Monday it is reclassifying the highly contagious triple-mutant Covid variant spreading in India as a “variant of concern,” indicating that it’s become a global health threat.
Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead for Covid-19, said the agency will provide more details in its weekly situation report on the pandemic Tuesday but added that the variant, known as B.1.617, has been found in preliminary studies to spread more easily than the original virus and there is some evidence it may able to evade some of the protections provided by vaccines.
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3 comments:
WHO is still the leader of the rear guards. Everybody have already said that.
Unpleasant as it is I find this "life form" quite interesting in how quickly it responds to solutions by us humans.
Any association with the UFO's?
Next week the quadruple mutant corona
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