WHO Is Monitoring A New Covid Variant – Says Director-General

Tedros Adhanom

The World Health Organization has revealed that they are monitoring a new coronavirus variant called “mu.”
This new variant has the potential to evading immunity provided by a previous Covid-19 infection or vaccination, the WHO said.
The new variant was initially identified in Colombia but has since been confirmed in at least 39 countries, according to the agency.

EkohotBlog reports that the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made this revelation during a bilateral meeting with Swiss Interior and Health Minister Alain Berset on the sidelines of the opening of the 74th World Health Assembly at the WHO headquarters, in Geneva, Switzerland.

He stated that the World Health Organization is monitoring a new coronavirus variant called “mu,” which the agency says has mutations that have the potential to evade immunity provided by a previous Covid-19 infection or vaccination.

‘Mu’ is equally known by scientists as B.1.621 was recently added to the WHO’s list of variants of “interest” on Aug. 30. The health organization revealed in its weekly Covid epidemiological report published late Tuesday.

Tedros stressed further that the variant contains genetic mutations that indicate natural immunity, and covid-19 current vaccines or monoclonal antibody treatments may not work against the new strain as they do against the original ancestral virus. The ‘mu’ strain needs further study to confirm whether it will prove to be more contagious, more deadly, or more resistant to current vaccines and treatments, WHO said.

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