Specialists of the British public health service (PHE) have identified the spread of a new mutation of coronavirus B.1.621 in the country, the agency said.
According to him, 16 cases of infection with this SARS-CoV-2 strain have been confirmed in the UK, most of them are associated with travel abroad.
Now experts have no data that a new variant of the virus causes a more serious illness or reduces the effectiveness of the vaccines used. Doctors conduct laboratory tests to understand how the mutation affected the behavior of the virus.
According to data from the World Health Organization, the first reported case of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.621 strain occurred in Colombia in January. Since then, Forbes writes with reference to the international platform GISAID, which provides open access to the genomic data of influenza and coronavirus viruses, it has been identified in 26 countries. The rise in the disease occurred in June and July, with almost half of the reported cases occurring in the United States.
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