New COVID-19 Variant Emerges In France

By Pelumi Emmanuel

Published: January 6, 2022 | 6:53 AM GMT

While the world is still grappling with the highly infectious Omicron, strain of COVID, scientists in France have identified a potentially worrying new variant, which has forty-six mutations.

Named IHU, the new B.1.640.2 variant has so far infected twelve people living in southeastern France.

According to the researchers, the first case was linked to a person with a travel history to Cameroon, western Africa.

However, experts were quick to announce that just because a new variant had been discovered, that did not necessarily mean IHU will prove as infectious as other strains, including Omicron.

In the analysis, the authors found forty-six mutations” which had not been spotted in other countries, nor labelled a variant under investigation by the World Health Organization.

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