Mutates twice as fast Dr. Vasant Nagvekar, an infectious diseases consultant at Mumbai's Global hospital and a member of the government task force on the new variant of COVID-19, said that the new variant also has a mutation rate that is near "twice as fast" as the rate of other variants. "A new SARS-CoV-2 variant, C.1.2, just identified in South Africa and other countries with concerns that it could be more infectious and evade vaccines.
What sets this variant apart is the speed at which it is mutating. This variant is changing and mutating at a rapid rate which is seen in many variants of concern and variants of interest." No cases in India C.1.2 has since been found in China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mauritius, England,