What’s known about ‘IHU’, new Covid-19 variant discovered in France
- Variant was first detected in France and showed up in a traveller who recently arrived from Cameroon
- WHO says variant ‘has been on our radar’, but it’s not considered a variant of interest or concern
The variant, called B.1.640.2, was dubbed the “IHU variant” by researchers at the IHU Mediterranee Infection Institute in Marseilles, who first identified the variant in France in November, according to Forbes.
According to a December study that is not yet peer-reviewed, the researchers confirmed 12 patients tested positive for the variant, which contained mutations that also appeared in other fast-spreading variants.
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