A note on COVID-19 variants, old and new

  A number of COVID-19 variants have appeared, first time in many parts of the world but seems to be spreading to other countries. Increased travel and relaxing will only promote spreading virus variants and controlling the virus spread will be difficult. 

Here is an image of collated information from various sources (obviously incomplete) across the Internet.

 

Here is a list of variants identified by MAKO laboratories.

Here are some links that you may be interested in (the titles are in bold):

 

Covid-19: The E484K mutation and the risks it poses

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n359

Covid-19: Novavax vaccine efficacy is 86% against UK variant and 60% against South African variant

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n296

Scientists In US' Oregon Find B.1.1.7 Variant With 'E484K', Mutation Also Found In India

https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/rest-of-the-world-news/scientists-in-us-oregon-find-b-dot-11-dot-7-variant-with-e484k-mutation-also-found-in-india.html

Another New Coronavirus Variant Now Detected In 13 Countries (B.1.125)

https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/global-event-news/another-new-coronavirus-variant-now-detected-in-13-countries.html

There is also a new variant from India, the Indian variant:

The Indian variant is given the designationB.1.617 which has two mutations, E$*$Q and L452R

https://www.firstcoastnews.com/video/news/local/double-mutant-covid-19-variant-first-discovered-in-india-now-found-in-the-us/77-176b256f-35df-4931-923a-0fb5cd527678?jwsource=cl

More here:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/indian-covid-19-variant-found-in-u-s-across-globe-as-foreign-help-arrives-11619545081

One has to be careful as this variant according to Indian scientists evade immune response:

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indian-scientists-flag-virus-mutations-that-could-evade-immune-response-2021-05-01/