Cork-based scientists tracing emerging Covid variants

Covid-19 'will evolve to work better, to infect better, in a new host' warns Teagasc researcher Dr John Kenny.

A team of Irish scientists have sequenced more than 2,700 Covid-19 samples in a bid to identify emerging variants that could be of concern.

The Irish Coronavirus Sequencing Consortium (ICSC) is led by researchers at the Teagasc/APC Microbiome Ireland Sequencing Centre at Moorepark in Fermoy, who are working closely with the National Virus Reference Laboratory, other Teagasc centres, and several hospitals and universities.