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New coronavirus symptoms to look out for as new Nigerian variant is ‘more severe'
coronavirus has been discovered and it is already on UK soil.First identified in Nigeria, there are real concerns among medical experts that this particular strain of the virus could prove resistant to the vaccine as this mutation contains the 484K mutation to the spike protein, which may help it evade the vaccine's antibodies.The 484K mutation has also been identified in the South African and Brazilian variants.Dr Simon Clarke, an associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, was the first expert to express concerns over the new strain's potential resistance to current vaccines.Clarke told the Guardian: “We don’t yet know how well this [new] variant will spread, but if it is successful it can be presumed that