Question of the day: Should we be concerned about a new variant identified in France?

A few days ago, information arrived from France regarding the identification of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the COVID-19, which had been unofficially named IHU.

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The information was released via Twitter by researchers from the University Hospital Institute of Marseille, responsible for the report of variant B.1.640.2. The name with which they called the new variant responds to the initials of the institute in question.

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Although it is a variant with 46 mutations, detected in 12 patients and related to a person who came from Cameroon on a trip, are there really reasons to be concerned? Will it be the new dominant variant, after omicron?

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