variant viral

CONT: Mutations that make viruses more infectious don't necessarily make them more dangerous. A number of variants have already been detected in the UK [United Kingdom]. For example, the D614G variant is believed to have increased the ability of the virus to be transmitted and is now the most common type circulating in the UK, although it doesn't seem to result in more severe disease.

OBS: variante: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, indica que las ""cepas de virus"" no son lo mismo que las ""variantes"", por lo que se recomienda distinguir estas dos palabras. [...] Tanto una ""cepa"" como una ""variante"" implican un comportamiento diferente de un ""virus"", pero, para que se considere una ""cepa"", este ha de cambiar de modo significativo [...]