News
WHO identifies new COVID-19 variants which might be resistant to Vaccine
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt">The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified a new variant of the COVID-19 virus and have labelled the &#8220;Mu&#8221;. The Health agency also claimed that these new variants may be immune to the COVID-19 vaccines.</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-10453" src="https://thedailypage.ng/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screenshot_20210901-210656.jpg" alt="" width="720" height="524" /></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt">The World Health Organisation&#8217;s report read &#8221; Based on the latest round of assessment, B.1.621 was classified as VOI on 30 August 2021and given the WHO label &#8220;Mu&#8221; This include the descendant pango lineage B.1.621.1. This variant is known as 21H in Nextstrain nomenclature&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt">The World Health Organization in its epidemiological update published on Tuesday stated that these new variants has shown some resistance to the COVID-19 vaccines, but reveled that more studies were required before a final conclusion can be made. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt">WHO, also revealed that cases of these variants have not been found in Africa, but some cases have been identified in Europe and South America.</span></p>