Variant not seen since March provides hope that vaccine could reduce severity of infections
Taiwan News
Date: 2020/08/22
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Researchers in Singapore have discovered a milder variant of the Wuhan coronavirus. (AP photo)
The mutation emerged in Wuhan during the early stages of the pandemic before spreading to Taiwan and Singapore, according to experts at Singapore's National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), per the Straits Times. The variant was later transmitted through several clusters in the Southeast Asian city-state from January to March. [FULL STORY]
