find a new variant of Covid-19

Brazilian scientists on Tuesday announced the existence of a new variant of the coronavirus in Brazil, already identified in 21 municipalities of São Paulo, one of the most affected by the pandemic. The Brazilian Society of Virology (SBV) He named it P.4 and claimed that it had the L452R mutation in the virus ‘spike’ protein, an alteration also present in the Indian variant (B.1.617).