South African variant, what you need to know. More contagious than the Delta, at least 6 months to “update” the vaccines

Why is the new variant worrying?
“It has an unusually high number of mutations, 32 on the spike protein,” he explains Gianguglielmo Zehender, virologist of the University of Milan and of the Sacco hospital, expert in the evolution of viruses. Many mutations generally correspond to important changes in the behavior of microorganisms. “The first impression is that the vaccines will not stop being effective entirely, but they will lose something.