Why more contagious variants are emerging now, more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic
- Written by David Welch, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland
Shutterstock/LightspringNew variants of SARS-CoV-2 have now evaded New Zealand’s border protections twice to spread into the community.
In the most recent outbreak, which placed Auckland into an alert level 3 lockdown, there are three active community cases of the more infectious B.1.1.7 lineage.
While we have seen the virus mutate over the...
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