Covid strain that can ‘fool’ 3 antibodies found in Mumbai

Mumbai: While the search for the highly contagious UK mutation of Covid-19 continues in India, researchers from Tata Memorial Centre in Kharghar have found three patients from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (outside Mumbai) with an equally worrying mutation. Called the E484K mutation, it is linked to the South African strain. “This is one of three mutations (K417N, E484K and N501Y) seen in the South African lineage,” said Dr Nikhil Patkar, associate professor in haematopathology at Tata Memorial Centre’s Kharghar unit called ACTREC, whose team found the E484K mutation in three…