Coronavirus Update: Dangerous variant ‘ihu’ from Omicron found in France, 46 mutations found in new version 1 News Track English

Coronavirus Update: The whole world is battling the outbreak of the highly contagious Omicron virus. Meanwhile, scientists and experts in France have identified a new variant of the corona virus, which has been called ‘Ihu’. The new version is more muted than Omicron. 46 mutations have been found in the new variant ‘Ihu’ of Corona.

12 cases of new variants found in France

About 12 cases of this new variant have been reported near Marseilles in France and it has been linked to the African country of Cameroon. The b.1.640.2 or ihu variant was first identified by academics at the IHU Mediterranean Infection Institute and contains 46 mutations. These are higher than Omicron because it only had 32 mutations. This new variant can be a big threat. However, cases have not been reported so far in countries other than France and the World Health Organization (WHO) has not yet declared it under investigation.

New variant can dodge corona vaccines

According to a paper posted on MedRxiv, the new strain has an E484K mutation that could make it more resistant to vaccines, that is, it can dodge corona vaccines. It also has the N501Y mutation, which was first seen on the alpha variant. Experts believe this could make it more contagious.

Scientists say that once again the situation of the emergence of new variants and their arrival from abroad has been visible. This shows the increasing difficulty in controlling the spread of corona. If you control in your country, then some variant will come from somewhere else. You can’t know what’s going to happen.

“We actually have several cases of this new variant in the Marseilles geographic region”

Professor Philip Colson, Head of the Department at IHU, who discovered the new variant, said: “We actually have several cases of this new variant in the Marseilles geographic region. We named it ‘Variants IHU'”. Its two new genomes have just been deposited.” Erik Feigl-Ding, a well-known epidemiologist, said on Twitter – the mutation caused fourteen amino acids and nine amino acid changes. These spikes are located in the protein.

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