How do scientists track new COVID variants?

Inside the Wellcome Sanger lab in Cambridge, looking for COVID variant genomes

Inside the Wellcome Sanger lab in Cambridge, looking for COVID variant genomes Source: AP

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Resources once used to further research on other diseases are now being used to identify new variants of the COVID-19 virus.

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