Also referred to as the ‘Nepal variant’, AY.1 combines the Delta and a mutation previously found in the ‘South African’ or Beta variant
The UK has 36 cases of the new variant with the majority affecting younger individuals, according to PHE. Of these 36, 27 people had taken at least one dose of vaccine, and no deaths have been reported so far.Vinod Scaria, a Delhi-based scientist with CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology , said that the new mutation is in the spike protein of Sars-Cov-2, which enables the virus to enter and infect human cells.
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