Political support for surveillance of Covid waning in Australia despite ‘waves of mutations’, scientists say
by Melissa Davey Medical editor from Science | The Guardian on (#6E4HC)
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Political momentum for the monitoring and surveillance of Covid-19 is fading", the Australian virologist who developed a world-first method for rapidly isolating and characterising variants said.
Prof Stuart Turville, with the University of New South Wales Kirby Institute, said while the impact of Covid-19 in Australia is waning, the Sars CoV-2 virus that causes disease is constantly changing and there is still a lot we don't know".
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