'No one should worry': COVID-19 not evolved enough to beat vaccines, assure scientists

As a new, more severe strain of COVID-19 is causing concerns across world, scientists have assured that it would take years for virus to evolve eugh to beat current vaccines. Scientists have said that one should worry about virus suddenly turning potent eugh to game current vaccines and antibodies, ding that if it is ever going to happen, it would take multiple years. This comes after recent detection of a new strain of COVID-19 in United Kingdom and South Africa amid an ongoing vaccination campaign in several countries. 

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" one should worry that re is going to be a single catastrophic mutation that suddenly renders all immunity and antibodies useless. It is going to be a process that occurs over time scale of multiple years and requires accumulation of multiple viral mutations... It's t going to be like an on-off switch," said Dr. Jesse Bloom, an evolutionary biologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.  

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New strain in UK, South Africa

United Kingdom last week reported about a new variant of COVID-19 virus that experts say spres faster than all previous mutations. Days later South Africa also reported a similar variant in country, warning that it contains higher viral los and is equally lethal to young ults. strain in South Africa has been named '501.V2 Variant' and may be responsible for ongoing second wave in country, as per country's health minister.

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South African Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said that it remains unclear wher new strain of virus is causing more deaths than previous variants identified in first wave and severity of virus also remains in air. Meanwhile, virologists in UK have said that it is t clear how new strain of virus affects COVID-19 vaccines and treatment or wher it causes a higher mortality rate. 

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(With inputs from ANI)