New coronavirus variant discovered in Finland

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Researchers in southern Finland have discovered a new, "unique" variant of the coronavirus.

Helsinki-based Vita Laboratories said the variant, dubbed Fin-796H, displayed some mutations previously discovered in the British and South African variants of the virus but in a combination it called "unique," Yle reported.

"The variant was discovered in a patient last week, so details about the infectivity and potential resistance of this strain to vaccines are not yet known," said Vita Laboratories' researcher Taru Meri.

It is unlikely that the variant emerged in Finland due to relatively low rates of coronavirus infection in the country, Meri said.

Ilkka Julkunen, Professor of Virology at the University of Turku, told Yle that based on the information available, the emergence of the variant was not a major concern.

"I would not be hugely worried yet, because we do not have clear information that this new strain would be more easily transmitted or that it would affect the immune protection brought about by already having had the virus or having received a vaccination," he said.

Petri Auvinen, research director of the University of Helsinki's Institute of Biotechnology, said finding new variants of the coronavirus was simply "a matter of time."

"However, the newly-discovered variant differs from expectations in that it does not genetically resemble any other known variant," he said.

Vita Laboratories considers the discovery of the new variant significant as it may not show up in PCR tests for coronavirus that search for particular genetic sequences in the virus' RNA.

If the PCR test is only able to identify specific parts of that code, then a mutated virus may escape detection. Therefore, PCR tests often search for at least two different sections.

"The tests' inability to recognise it, meaning those mutations have occurred in the section on which the PCR test is based, is the most important information about this variant at the moment," clinical researcher Taru Meri said.

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Oh ffs. 

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respectfully, i will be passing away 

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I don't really care anymore

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another one 

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3 minutes ago, Dulo Peep said:

another one 

[Better Day 5,766]

That’s it.  It’s Finnish

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Honestly. God, take my soul now 

[LGMonster95 13,704]

It's not surprising y'all, the virus has reached up to hundreds of millions of people at this moment ofc It's going to mutate, the scientists expected this and people are already working on updating their vaccines. We're still going to win this battle, last year we didn't even expect to have a single working vaccine at this moment and we're already having not only an effective one but multiple great vaccines so don't lose hope

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8 minutes ago, LGMonster95 said:

It's not surprising y'all, the virus has reached up to hundreds of millions of people at this moment ofc It's going to mutate, the scientists expected this and people are already working on updating their vaccines. We're still going to win this battle, last year we didn't even expect to have a single working vaccine at this moment and we're already having not only an effective one but multiple great vaccines so don't lose hope

Exactly we have to remember that a lot of poor implementations and irresponsible behaviors contributed to the aggression behind COVID mutating so easily and frequently, but thankfully we have the science to back up synthesizing and adjusting vaccines accordingly.

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Covid's droplets era needs to stop

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Finland is home to Nokia and we all know about legend 3310 

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Will this one be part of the Corona Spring/Summer 2021 collection?

 

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4 minutes ago, Mister G said:

Exactly we have to remember that a lot of poor implementations and irresponsible behaviors contributed to the aggression behind COVID mutating so easily and frequently, but thankfully we have the science to back up synthesizing and adjusting vaccines accordingly.

I already heard that they trying to make a vaccine that would attack the core of the virus instead of the spike protein which would make it effective to all of the COVID variants. The current vaccines are still great because It's going to have a great effect towards the dominant variant which tbh It's the much bigger problem at the moment (and even if its a bit less effective towards the SA one, they will still have a level of protection) so in conclusion, we should not be that worried.