The global Wuhan pneumonia (novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19) Epidemic continues to spread, and Finland was shocked to discover a mutated novel coronavirus, which combines the characteristics of mutated viruses from the UK and South Africa, and cannot be detected by any PCR test approved by the World health Organization, and the test may not be effective.
According to the Finnish state media “Yleisradio”, the University of Helsinki (University of Helsinki) Institute of Biotechnology and the country’s “Vita” laboratory found the mutated virus in a patient in southern Finland, and named the strain The strain was named “Fin-796H”.
A statement released by the “Vita” laboratory noted that “Fin-796H” combines characteristics of mutated viruses previously found in the United Kingdom and South Africa, and the team noted that “it does not appear to belong to any known clade of neocoronavirus evolution. The team noted that “it does not appear to belong to any known evolutionary clade of the new coronavirus.
Ilkka Julkunen, a professor of virology at the University of Helsinki, said that based on the available information, the emergence of the mutant is not yet a major problem, and that “we have no clear information that this new strain of virus is more likely to spread, or affect patients already infected with the virus, or negatively affect immune protection from vaccination. “
The study found that this new strain of the virus could not be found through any of the nucleic acid tests approved by the World Health Organization, and it is still not known where the mutation occurred. The team believes it is possible that it occurred in a country other than Finland, where the number of confirmed cases has recently dropped significantly, and it is not yet known whether the vaccine is effective against it.
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