Few cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus Mu mutation, first detected in Colombia last January and said the vaccine could be resistant to vaccines, are rare in France, the Public Health Service said today. (SPF).
At the end of August, the WHO reported that the Mu or B.1.621 mutation is a strain that “needs to be monitored” by scientists. This variant carries mutations that could make it resistant to vaccines, and more studies are needed for scientists to better understand its characteristics.
Mu first appeared in Colombia in January. Since then, its development has been monitored but it seems that, at the moment, “it is little present in France”, as Sibyl Bernard-Stecklen, a high-ranking SPF executive, said in a press conference she gave today.
In fact, the cases “do not seem to have increased recently” in France, as in other European countries. In fact, in France they seem to have decreased in August, while they had increased slightly in June and July.
The health authorities will, however, monitor “with great care” its development in the coming weeks.
Another mutation being monitored by scientists is South African C.1.2, for which data are “still fragmentary” and found “very sporadically” in Europe, Bernard-Stecklen explained.
Source of RES EIA
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