New variants will hinder but not stop our battle against Covid

Thanks to vaccines, it looks like we’ll win the war against Covid-19, but the rules of engagement have changed as variants emerge, and it could be a long and rocky road to get out of the woods and out of the woods. return. to “normality”.

Many viruses are susceptible to mutation because they multiply rapidly inside human cells, allowing new variants to emerge. This has allowed more variants of the transmissible viruses, especially in the UK, South Africa and Brazil, to become dominant.