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Published: 02 August 2021
It kills one in three people infected, British scientists warn of the emergence of a new mutant of the new corona virus, capable of causing deaths at the same rate as the Middle East respiratory syndrome.
According to scientists, the mutant has a less serious effect than Mears on older people, and those with chronic diseases.
In a research paper, scientists identified the possibility that the new mutant would not be affected by current vaccines against COFID-19, saying that this was "almost certain."
The document prepared by the British Emergency Scientific Advisory Group indicated that eliminating the virus causing COFID-19 would not be easy and that new mutants would always emerge.
Experts from the group said that the new mutant might result from the re-installation of two new different types of mutants, or arising from existing ones such as alpha and delta.
Scientists have reviewed the resistance of the new mutant to currently available vaccines used against COFID-19, to what is known as "cambodian drift," a mechanism for viral change through the assembly of mutations within genes, which symbolize the binding sites of antigen.
Commenting on information related to the new mutant, the epidemiologist Deepti Jordasani said that the research paper of the British Emergency Scientific Advisory Group was a "stark warning."
In a tweet on her Twitter account, she said: "It is necessary to adopt immediate preventive action in the light of developments, as the world can no longer cope with more mutants."