NEW YORK, KOMPAS.TV – Currently in the world, many virus variants are circulating Covid-19 in the midst of society, both those who are known to the experts and those who are not. Health experts and pandemic the main world is currently concerned with three variants corona virus, as reported by the Associated Press, Friday (29/01/2021)
When a virus Covid-19 infecting humans, the virus can mutate just as it reproduces itself. Some mutations, or changes, can make the virus die, or even make the mutated virus more infectious and often more deadly.
An infectious disease expert at Yale University, Mary Petrone, as quoted by the Associated Press said, “Viruses are sometimes lucky (they can mutate),”
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Monitoring the development of emerging virus variants is important, because they can make vaccines or treatment regimens less effective or even change the way the virus infects humans.
A virus mutation in the early days of the pandemic triggered the spread of the virus throughout the world, long enough there was no change or mutation, until a significant virus mutation occurred recently, said Daniel Jones, a biologist at Ohio State University.
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