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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

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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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