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WHO monitors a new COVID-19 variant called Mu [Video]

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:


  • The World Health Organization is monitoring a COVID-19 variant called “Mu” formally known as B.1.621.
  • Mu was first discovered in Colombia and has since spread to at least 39 countries, according to the agency.
  • The Mu variant has a “constellation of mutations” that suggests it evade immunity provided by a previous Covid-19 infection or vaccination.

The World Health Organization is monitoring a new COVID-19 variant called Mu, or B.1.621. The agency says it could possibly evade the immunity people get from vaccines and prior COVID-19 infections.

The Mu variant was first detected in Colombia in January this year. It has since been identified in 39 countries and was added to the WHO’s ‘Variants of Interest’ on August 30.

The agency said in its weekly bulletin that the Mu variant “has a constellation of mutations that indicate potential properties of immune escape.”

Further studies will be needed on the mutated variant, according to the WHO, to see if it can evade immune defenses to COVID-19 like the Beta variant that was first detected in South Africa.

In the United States, 1,953 cases of the Mu variant have already been reported, according to the open-source database Outbreak.info. As of publication, only Nebraska and South Dakota have no cases of the Mu variant.

“At the moment, it looks like there’s genuine cause for concern in USA, Central America, and South America, but as we saw with Delta, a potent variant can traverse the globe in the blink of an eye,” said Danny Altmann, an immunology expert at Imperial College London, to The Telegraph.

Mutations of the COVID-19 virus have created devastation around the world. The highly contagious Delta variant is responsible for a calamitous wave of COVID infections in India and caused a sudden surge in cases in the US.

The recent case surge in the country has prompted the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to recommend that even the fully vaccinated should wear masks indoors.

According to The New York Times’ COVID-19 case tracker, the total number of COVID-19 infections in the US is 39,527,445 as of September 1. This marks an 18% increase over the last 14 days in the number of COVID cases reported in the US.

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The prevalence of the Mu variant among sequenced cases has declined worldwide and is currently below 0.1%, though its prevalence in Colombia and Ecuador has consistently increased, the WHO warned.

Source: The Insider


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  1. Haba lnnocent

    September 6, 2021 at 11:04 pm

    Types of variant. Categories of COVID 19 vaccines and their efficacy.

  2. Karen lindberg

    September 7, 2021 at 1:58 pm

    BIDEN and his IMBECILES have no intention of Americans getting back their LIVES. every couple of months a new variant and after that another variant and another.the fearmongering Democrats like CONTROLLING THEIR SHEEP. BAA BAA .BAA.enjoy being a slave.

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