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Variant or strain? Experts explain what’s happened to the coronavirus

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Variant or strain? Experts explain what’s happened to the coronavirus

SBN Editor

Published on December 28, 2020

While some have referred to the changes the coronavirus has undergone in the U.K. as a new variant, others are calling it a strain as well as a mutation. However, experts say these terms are not interchangeable and all of them don’t necessarily apply to this change in the virus.

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