Talk:South African COVID variant

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Google reveals 4.5 million results (archived) of "South African coronavirus variant" and related terms (see below) as of 13 January 2021. Some government/media sources used it as a name, some used it colloquially. These are the names in most common (colloquial) usage, as compared to 501.V2 variant. Below is a shortlist of sources of these terms.   denote scientific sources.

  • "South African COVID-19 variant present in Ireland - health chief". Fortune. 2021-01-09.
  • "Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine appears effective against mutation in new coronavirus variants -study". Reuters. 2021-01-08.
  • "South African variant 'unlikely to bypass the protection provided by vaccines'". BBC Science Focus. 2021-01-05.
  •   "Expert reaction to the South African variant". Science Media Centre. London. 2021-01-04.
  •   "Implications of the Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variant VUI 202012/01". US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2020-12-22. The South African variant also has the N501Y mutation and several other mutations but emerged completely independently of the UK strain and is not related to it.