PETALING JAYA: Even as more study is needed on the new Covid-19 variant, IHU, epidemiologists say the prevention and control measures will be almost the same with concern largely on the effectiveness of current vaccines against it. It’s a common behaviour of such viruses to evolve and change or mutate from time to time, resulting in variants. The IHU is named after the French institution that reported the variant – IHU Mediterranee Infection. “It (IHU) has not been found in countries outside of France or labelled as a variant of concern by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Covid-19 incident manager of WHO, Abdi Mahmud, told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday that the IHU variant had been on the agency’s radar since last November but it did not appear to have spread widely over the past two months.
