The mutation that makes coronavirus 'unstoppable': 614G

Research has revealed that the mutation, called '614G', helps the virus spread more easily from person to person, making it harder to stop the outbreak.

First detected in December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, dozens of different mutations of the coronavirus have emerged over the past year. According to experts, almost the vast majority of mutations to date have not caused a significant change in the course of the disease. Except for one. 

The mutation, called '614G', helped the virus spread more easily from person to person, making it harder to stop the outbreak, the New York Times reported. The mutation, known as ' 614G, was first seen in eastern China in January and then quickly spread to Europe and the US. And the moon has spread to most of the world. 

Researchers at the U.S. Los Alamos National Laboratory had actually noted in May that the variant improved its ability to infect people more effectively. But some scientists attributed the detection of 614g in northern Italy, which was the center of the outbreak at the time, to coincidence and approached the theory as suspicious. 

At the end of the study, scientists supported the view that the mutated virus actually had a distinct advantage and infected people more easily than the original variant identified in Wuhan. 

So does' 614G ' affect the risk of death and vaccine work? 

No evidence has been found that the 614g mutation increases the severity of the disease or the risk of death, or may affect vaccine work, according to the study. But 614G increased the transmission coefficient (R) in society, allowing the pandemic to spread to the world much more than before. 

Currently, according to the World Health Organization, an average of more than 600 thousand cases per day occurred after mutations that also occurred. 

David Engelthaler, a geneticist at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Arizona, said: "if we look at previous and current research, this mutation could be what created the pandemic. 614G is much more contagious than the original coronavirus, which appeared in Wuhan in late 2019," he said.