New Covid variant with ‘high number of mutations’ found in UK

The variant is said to be gnomically distant from its likely ancestor the BA.2 variant, nicknamed 'stealth Omicron'.

variant with a ‘high number of mutations’ has been detected in the UK.

This means there could already be ‘significant community transmission’ among Britons, the agency added. That variant gained its nickname from the fact it is more transmissible than the original Omicron strain, which originated in southern Africa and was first detected in the UK in late 2021. Francois Balloux, Professor of computational systems biology and director of the UCL Genetics Institute at University College London, said the new strain is ‘the most striking SARS-CoV-2 strain the world has witnessed since the emergence of Omicron’ with more than 30 mutations.

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