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This is what we know about the new COVID-19 variant, according to an expert

Lucy van Dorp, an expert in microbial genomics, answers key questions about the new COVID-19 variant, including how effective the vaccine will be against it.

21 Dec 2020

Health and Healthcare Systems

Denmark to cull entire mink herd over coronavirus mutation fear

Denmark's farmed mink population is to be culled, after scientists found a mutated strain of the SARS-CoV-2 in the animals, which has been transmitted to humans.

11 Nov 2020

Health and Healthcare Systems

Coronavirus mutations: what we’ve learned so far

The genetic string for COVID-19 consists of 30,000 letters and after sampling 100,000 coronavirus patients, any mutations are limited to only 10 letters.

24 Sep 2020