WHO said the variant found in France has not yet been many threats since it was first identified in November.
Variants “have been on our radar,” Abdi Mahamud, the WHO incident manager in Covid, said on Tuesday.
“The virus has many opportunities to be picked up.” The variant, which was investigated, was identified at 12 people in the South Alps around the same time that Omicron was found in South Africa last year.
The last mutation has traveled a world, unlike the Frenchman who researchers in the Mediterranee IHU infection – led by scientists Didier Raoul – nicknamed IHU.
The first patient was identified with tension vaccinated and just returned from Cameroon, IHU scientist wrote in a paper published in Medrxiv Server at the end of December.
“It’s too early to speculate on the visological, epidemiological or clinical features of the IHU variant based on 12 cases,” they wrote in articles that have not been reviewed.
Raoult previously stirred one line by recommending treatment with hydroxychloroquine.