ලංකාවේ වේරියන්ට් එකක් ඇති. නමුත් තාම චෙක් කරලා නැති නිසා හම්බවෙන්න නැ
A variant is nothing to be alarmed of. It simply means that it
differs from a reference virus. Had you read my posts earlier I always stressed that there's
ONE and ONLY ONE strain of the Wuhan virus. Many laughed at me, because all the UK media was referring to strains at that time. Some did PM me the links of those news.
What happened much later? The word "Strain" is now unheard of and got replaced with the word "Variant". It's the right thing to do by the British scientists and later came in the term VOC (Variants Of Concern).
Even though a variant has a
changed genome sequence from the reference virus, it does
NOT necessarily imply that the phenotype of the virus got changed.
So just don't get scared when you happen to see the term variant. It doesn't mean it's more virulent - unless proven so.