(Eagle News) — Japanese health authorities have detected a new COVID-19 variant in a traveler who came from the Philippines. The National Institute of Infectious Diseases said in a bulletin posted on Friday, March 12, that the mutated B.1.1.28 strain, which carries the E484K and N501Y mutations, was collected from the traveler on Feb. 25. “This variant isolate also has the P681H mutation in the spike protein as with B.1.1.7 lineage (VOC-202012/01) which is suggested […]