Scientists at the IHU Mediterranee Infection in Marseille, France, have announced the discovery of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, which they say has more mutations than Omicron and may be more resistant to vaccines. Firstpost has the story.
Here’s what we know so far of this new COVID-19 variant:
• Researchers say that it contains 46 mutations – even more than Omicron – which makes it more resistant to vaccines and infectious.
• Some 12 cases have been spotted so far near Marseille, with the first linked to travel to the African country Cameroon.
• Tests show the strain carries the N501Y mutation – first seen on the Alpha variant – that experts believe can make it more transmissible
• According to the scientists, it also carries the E484K mutation, which could mean that the IHU variant will be more resistant to vaccines.
• It is yet to be spotted in other countries or labelled a variant under investigation by the World Health Organisation.
The variant was discovered on December 9th, so we might have expected it to have spread a bit further and faster by now if it is going to make a big impact – Omicron, by comparison, was already on its way to world domination by this point. So this may be just one of many non-event variants.
France is currently experiencing a strong winter surge dominated by the Omicron variant and the Government is responding by tightening the vaccine passport regime.
In an attempt to battle this surge, French MPs have proposed legislation that would require most people to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter public spaces such as bars, restaurants and long-distance public transport.
It is expected to come into force on January 15th after passing through the upper house Senate.
News agency AFP reported that the bill’s headline measure is aimed at getting France’s remaining five million unvaccinated people over 12 to accept a shot.
At present a health pass is required to access numerous everyday venues including bars, cafés, restaurants, cinemas, theatres, gyms, leisure centres and long distance train travel – but a recent negative test is accepted for the health pass.
The bill aims to replace the health pass with a vaccine pass – which would only allow people who are fully vaccinated to gain access to those venues.
But if new variants, whether Omicron or the ‘IHU’ variant or another yet to be discovered, evade vaccines – and the vaccinated are anyway dominating outbreaks – how do vaccine passports make any kind of sense? Politicians now appear to be just doing anything to look tough in this ‘war’ on the virus, even if they defy all rational justification and there is no evidence they will do anything to help.
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Well! WHAT a surprise! Didn’t see THAT coming, did we?
Isn’t it amazing, that despite all the evidence that the vaccines are INCREASING case rates (the more shots = the higher the likelihood of infection), governments double down and press vaccines/boosters and restrictions even harder! This denial, and the corresponding denials of natural immunity and available therapeutics, is simply staggering. It is not the virus that is the danger, it is governments!
It’s not about what they say it’s about though, is it?
Cue the bbc, sky, itv etc and all the other doomongers and lockdowners.
Expect another furore of misinformation.
“Tightening the vaccine passport mandate”. Why? Everyone know these injections (they are NOT vaccines) simply do not work.when will people wake up? And why would any country use a vaxx passport for something that never worked?
The stupidity level just keeps going up.
the vaccines don’t work, so have more vaccines, you have the virus – but so what? You’ve got a passport that lets you do stuff a perfectly healthy unvaccinated person can’t do….
Beware the variant spotters, they are the midwives of lockdown.
Politicians now appear to be just doing anything to look tough in this ‘war’ on the virus, even if they defy all rational justification and there is no evidence they will do anything to help.
This reads as though this is a change of policy: they ‘now appear to be’. But there’s never been any rational justification or evidence for the measures taken. They have always taken the route that would cause the most long term harm and social division.
You remember influenza? You know the virus that has disappeared? Well in several regions of France its reappeared with a vengeance, reaching official epidemic stages.
France now has Delta still representing 50% of covid ‘cases, omicron 50%, flu at epidemic stages and now another variant.
Of course this has nothing to do with its utterly mad policies of constraining normal life, vaccinating all its population 3 times with useless leaky vaccines and generally behaving like utter prats. No of course not, its all the fault of Brexit, or at least that’s what Macron would like the unwashed to believe.
A belated Christmas present from France to Australia’s state governments.
Different name, same fear porn.
French Covid variant is NOT ‘worth worrying about’ because it predates Omicron and has failed to take off, scientists say
How typically French.
Ivermectin not only cures Covid/Flu like symptoms but recently researchers found that Ivermectin inhibits Esophageal Cancer! Search “Ivermectin induces apoptosis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma via mitochondrial pathway” on googl. This is great news. No wonder they say wonder drug. Buy Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
‘which they say has more mutations than Omicron and may be more resistant to vaccines.’
I wonder if Johnson’s soultion to this will involve taking more of the same old vaccines?
How dare you! are you saying that our French variant isn’t up to the job..
Je maudis votre maison britannique…
So that is Denmark’s ideas hit on the head. That did not last long did it?
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/01/03/denmark-chief-epidemiologist-says-omicron-is-bringing-about-the-end-of-the-pandemic-and-we-will-have-our-normal-lives-back-in-two-months/
Vichy variant?
The French want somethign to give to the EU whilst they have the presidency.
France is currently experiencing a strong winter surge dominated by the Omicron variant and the Government is responding by tightening the vaccine passport regime..
Oh come on Will.. you know as well as we do that this is nothing to do with health, its about control.. absolute, total control over peoples lives, and ushering them into a totalitarian – technocratic hell on earth..
Making les rosbeefs speak with terrible Franglais accents?
Don’t you get it yet.
They will not stop.
It’s all about digital ID for everyone on the planet.
England is a bit of an outlier – for now.
We will be soon back under control of the RPTB.
Hold The Line.
Insanity is…per Einstein.
Totally, the goal posts keep being shifted, deliberately, only idiots still think this is about a virus
Yeah but we already have IDs and those were digitalised years ago. The ‘authorities’ already know who we are, and almost everything about us already.
If there was going to be a new ‘digital ID’ platform, all that needs to be done is to get your name and assign a number to it. You already have a National Insurance number, Passport number, etc. They can just be linked to your new digital ID number. Dead easy.
They can just use your phone number, if nothing else!
The question is – what next? Kids are growing up and getting used to this ‘New World Order’ – a few more years and they will not have known how things were pre-Covid.
Chris Whitty will end up tending to his roses at his cottage in the Cotswolds and live happily ever after.
At present they can’t know where you go all the time, who you go with, who you meet, what you spend money on, what you are doing , nor can they cut off your money or take it out of your account.
And if that’s not enough, they have algorithms to decide whether or not you have, or may develop, “undesirable” tendencies.
They will know all this via your “Green Pass” – sooner than you may think.
1984 in Spades.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.
In terms of pandemics, let’s have some votes and opinion…are we looking at this year’s pandemic as one too many, like Terminator, American Pie or Mission Impossible? Or do we still think we are in the middle of a classic one off, like Escape to victory?
> Escape to victory?
I’d forgotten about that one! It’s a one-off, since it was the first time mRNA vaccines were deployed, future Pandemics of all kinds will skip the first wasted year until we got the vaccines out of the door. In future vaccine development will consist of a fil patch down load, followed by mass production. THIS is the test run.
Good point. I am still thinking that the end will be so catastrophic for many parties, that it will remain a one-off….like Titanic. We shall see
…or, for that matter, Matrix Resurrections. Given the choice between that and a case of the sniffles, I’ll take the sniffles.
You lot must be far-right, misogynistic granny bashers. Where’s the solidarittee?
Either we have a sleepy brother/sister or the 77th is in da house. This one’s for the 77th:
Well, omicron is a disaster for them.
Better brew up/drag out/publicise an even scarier variant.
Who could ever have guessed that virus mutates.
Thank God for our great scientists without whom, err Clown World would not have happened.
Try to develop an understanding of how the immune system works before you start with gene therapies, – which you know the square root of F. all about anyway.
Cretins.
Covid is a mental disorder, can’t say it enough
It is AMDS an ‘Acquired Mental Disorder Syndrome ‘- to go with the AIDS generated by your immune system’s desperate activity to overcome the billons of spike proteins being manufactured in all your cells by the vaccines.
In the future it will be called something like Covid Narrative Disorder*. I believe there is no question this period of ‘mass psychosis’ will be given a name and judged accordingly.
*CBD. That’s unfortunate. No offence to the CBD oils, etc, which do a fine job. How about Derangement? Sugar. Still a D.
Edit: CND! I need to lay orf the scotch!
A vaccine-resistant variant eh? Who’d have guessed? Obviously we all need more booster shots. Better make it a double dose in each arm this time. How about a triple dose in each leg just for luck? Oh, and vaccine passports for putting the trash out, obviously.
“Eat, boost and be merry , for tomorrow we die!”
They might, I won’t (alcohol will get me first).
Conveniently ignoring that variants were found in France in March 2021 in Brittany and July 2021 in Bordeaux that amounted to absolutely nothing. Some sources are saying this Marseille variant was discovered in November, so five weeks and the media pick up on it now because they’re bored of Omicron? What a load of scumbags.
So the usual winter colds and flu
with house arrest!!
Mon dieu – bought some Camembert only this afternoon. Better take it back before it attacks.
Maybe it’s time to start a new society? The current one is stark raving mad and as Dr Robert Malone has stated, it is suffering from ‘Mass Formation Psychosis’. Best to leave it behind as it’s beyond psychological and economical repair…
You Tube have banned Malone – the war on truth continues!
But why use Google/ You Tube when there is Duck Duck and Bit Chute?
Anyone bored yet?
You can get used to anything, even this, it seems.
This French variant is approved by William Gates III.
Only a firking mug will now get another jab – and deserve to die!