Health authorities are worried about a new Covid variant dubbed as the NU variant which has a rather unusual mutation.
The Nu variant has a very unusual number of spike mutation, in fact 32 mutations which could render the current vaccine absolutely useless. They believe the mutation possibly happened in covid patients with HIV/AIDS.
The new variant was originally picked up by Imperial College London virologist Dr Tom Peacock, who shared details on a genome sharing site.
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