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Home-grown Covid-19 variant found to be present in Uruguay until last April

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Uruguayan scientists have found P.6, the Covid-19 variant specific to the South American country. They claim it could have contributed to the first wave of cases registered at the end of 2020 but which was then overtaken by the Brazilian P.1 and, since the end of April, has disappeared.

The Pasteur Institute of Montevideo issued a statement on Monday (2) in which it details that the Uruguayan SARS-CoV-2 variant was detected thanks to a study carried out by researchers of the Inter-institutional Working Group (GTI) in genomic surveillance of the . . .

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