The World Health Organization monitors a new mutated version of Corona

Geneva (ST):  The World Health Organization announced that it was monitoring a new mutated version of the Corona virus called (Mo), which was first detected in Colombia last January.

France Press Agency quoted the Organization as saying in its weekly epidemiological bulletin on the evolution of the pandemic that the mutant version (B61.21), according to its scientific designation, was currently classified as a mutant that must be monitored, indicating that this mutant has mutations that could pose the risk of resistance to vaccines, which makes it necessary for further studies to be carried out on them to better understand their properties.

It pointed out that the mutant (Mo) and since its detection, infections have been reported in a number of Latin American and European countries, pointing out that although the global prevalence of it among serial cases has decreased and is currently less than 1%, its prevalence in Colombia is 39% and in Ecuador 13 percent and it is steadily increasing.

If the vast majority of mutations have little or no effect on the characteristics of the virus, however, some mutations can affect the characteristics of the virus, such as increasing the ease of its spread, or the severity of the disease it causes, or the extent of its resistance to vaccines, drugs, diagnostic tools, or other social and public health measures.

K.Q.