On 08/02/2021 07:48, jon wrote:
On Mon, 08 Feb 2021 07:04:57 +0000, Brian Gaff \(Sofa\) wrote:

Does it really matter? All viruses mutate when they are stopped in some
way the ones that survive live to create more of their kind. That is
how the virus arms race goes and always has done.

Brian

Same as human evolution, but I was interested in whether the first covid-19
mutation occurred in Africa, as it is the cradle of civilisation.


The virus is thought to produce one or two mutations every month, so the
first almost certainly occurred in China. The first mutation that
produced a significant change in the action of the virus was found in
Kent and is know as the UK variant. That actually has 23 differences
from the original virus.


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Colin Bignell