The director of South Africa’s Center for Epidemiological Response and Innovation says the variant has 50 mutations, with more than 30 on mutant proteins used by viruses to enter our body’s cells. . And our medical correspondent James Gallagher says that its fundamental difference from the form it appeared in China “means that the vaccine, designed using the original, may not be as effective.” “. But, in his analysis, he adds that many of the former variants look terrible on paper.
