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New coronavirus strain found in Finland: difficult to detect yet different from all others

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A Finnish laboratory has detected a new coronavirus strain, which has been dubbed Fin-796H and was found in the south of the country. A joint study by Vita Laboratories and the University of Helsinki's Institute of Biotechnology has shown that this new strain can't be detected by all PCR tests approved by the World Health Organization (WHO), according to an official statement.

"Vita Laboratoriot Oy and the Institute of Biotechnology at the University of Helsinki have detected a previously unknown variant of the coronavirus in a sample from southern Finland. Mutations in this . . .

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