What's the Mu variant? And will we keep seeing more concerning variants?
- Written by Paul Griffin, Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The University of Queensland
This week the World Health Organization named a new “variant of interest” of the coronavirus, called the Mu variant. It was first found in Colombia in January 2021, and has been found in about 39 countries so far.
Mu has changes, called mutations, which mean it might be able to evade some of the protection we get from COVID vaccines.
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