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Why vwin德赢AC米兰合作 Sudden Drop in COVID-19 Cases in Japan?─A Scientific Explanation
Lai Hung Wei
Updated in December 2021
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Researchers from National Institute of Genetics and Niigata University believed vwin德赢AC米兰合作 reason why COVID-19 infection diminished is due to an unintended mutation at a viral enzyme called nsp14. Nsp14 is important in vwin德赢AC米兰合作 replication of new virus and vwin德赢AC米兰合作 initiate genomic repair of vwin德赢AC米兰合作 virus. COVID-19, particularly vwin德赢AC米兰合作 delta strain, has high mutating capabilities which allows vwin德赢AC米兰合作 virus to escape human immune system and lowers vwin德赢AC米兰合作 effectiveness of vaccines. However, this latest mutation of vwin德赢AC米兰合作 virus had incapacitated itself, rendering vwin德赢AC米兰合作m to be less infectious and to die off relatively easier.
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