{"id":41456,"date":"2022-01-05T09:11:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T05:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=41456"},"modified":"2022-01-05T09:11:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T05:41:56","slug":"france-detects-new-covid-variant-ihu-12-infected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/41456\/france-detects-new-covid-variant-ihu-12-infected\/","title":{"rendered":"France detects new Covid variant IHU, \u06f1\u06f2 infected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The new variant is said to be a more mutated strain than Omicron.<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, nearly 12 cases of this new variant have been reported near Marseilles and has been linked to the African country Cameroon. But, the Omicron strain is still dominating in most parts of the world, Business Insider reported.<\/p>\n<p>The B.1.640.2 or IHU variant was first identified by the academics at institute IHU Mediterranee Infection and contains 46 mutations, which is more than Omicron.<\/p>\n<p>This new variant can be a major threat, however, the cases have not been reported so far in countries other than France and are not labelled as \u2018variant under investigation\u2019 by the World Health Organisation (WHO).<\/p>\n<p>According to a paper posted on medRxiv, the strain carries the E484K mutation which can make it more resistant to vaccines. It also has the N501Y mutation \u2014 first seen on the Alpha variant \u2014 that experts believe can make it more transmissible.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists say, \u201cthese observations show once again the unpredictability of the emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants and their introduction from abroad. And they exemplify the difficulty to control such introduction and subsequent spread.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ZZ\/PR<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new variant is said to be a more mutated strain than Omicron. According to media reports, nearly 12 cases of this new variant have been reported near Marseilles and has been linked to the African country Cameroon. But, the Omicron strain is still dominating in most parts of the world, Business Insider reported. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}