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Variants- General News Articles

Last updated: 2021 Jun 23

Total row(s): 17

Date of Publish	Newspaper/ Channel	Title	Summary	Reference paper Title/link	Reference paper Author/University
2021 Apr 14	BBC	South Africa coronavirus variant: What is the risk?
2021 Jan 04	BBC	Covid-19 in South Africa: Scientists seek to understand new variant
2021 Jan 06	BBC	Coronavirus variants and mutations: The science explained
2020 Dec 20	BBC	New coronavirus variant: What do we know?
2020 Dec 14	BBC	New variant' of coronavirus identified in England
2021 Apr 19	The Indian EXPRESS	Explained: Which are the Covid-19 variants in India, and do they explain the surge?
	New Scientist	South African covid-19 variant (B.1.351)	The B.1.351 variant is a form of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that evolved in South Africa.
2021 Mar 01	New Scientist	Brazil covid-19 variant (P.1)	A mutation of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus first identified in Brazil
	New Scientist	UK covid-19 variant (B.1.1.7)	The Kent variant of coronavirus was first seen in the South East of England
	New Scientist	New coronavirus variants	Mutations in SAR-CoV2 viruses can lead to new variants with a different set of challenges
2021 Jan 26	New Scientist	UK coronavirus variant deadlier but researchers say no need to panic.	It appears the B.1.1.7 coronavirus variant first identified in the UK is slightly deadlier as well as being more transmissible than older variants.
2021 Feb 02	New Scientist	UK coronavirus variant gets nastier as South African variant spreads	Samples of the more transmissible B.1.1.7 coronavirus variant,has acquired a mutation that will help them evade immune protection – the same mutation already present in the B.1.351 variant in South Africa, which is now spreading worldwide.
2021 Apr 19	India Today	Is double mutant variant fuelling second wave of Covid-19?	Some authorities blamed the Covid-19 protocol fatigue that led to lapses while some health experts have pointed to an Indian variant, called the double mutant strain, of SARS-CoV-2.
2021 Apr 18	The Hindu	Variant from India being probed: U.K.	British health officials areinvestigating a COVID-19 variant originating in India but as yetthey do not have enough evidence to classify it is as a variantof concern,
2021 Apr 13	The Hindu	U.K. variant more transmissible, but does not increase COVID-19 severity: Lancet	A separate observational study using data logged by 37,000 U.K. users of a self-reporting COVID-19 symptom app found no evidence that the B.1.1.7. variant altered symptoms or likelihood of experiencing long COVID.
2021 Jan 18	The New York Times	Inside the B.1.1.7 Coronavirus Variant	Detailed information about the protein structure, mutations of B.1.1.7 variant	Preliminary genomic characterisation of an emergent SARS-CoV-2 lineage in the UK defined by a novel set of spike mutations	Andrew Rambaut1, Nick Loman2, Oliver Pybus3, Wendy Barclay4, Jeff Barrett5, Alesandro Carabelli6, Tom Connor7, Tom Peacock4, David L Robertson8, Erik Volz4, on behalf of COVID-19 Genomics Consortium UK (CoG-UK)9.
2021 Apr 14	BBC	What are the Brazil, South Africa and UK variants and will vaccines work?