How do scientists track new COVID variants?
Inside the Wellcome Sanger lab in Cambridge, looking for variant genomes. Source: AP
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New mutations of COVID-19 are emerging all the time, some causing more concern than others. The latest to be identified is similar to the UK variant, but with genetic changes also found in the South African one. So how are scientists keeping track of it all?
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