How the coronavirus mutates and what this means for the future of COVID-19

By Ed Rybicki, Director, Biopharming Research Unit; and Member, Institute of infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
Anna-Lise Williamson, Professor in Vaccinology, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
Don Cowan, Director, Genomics Research Institute; Director, Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, University of Pretoria
Stephanie G Burton, Professor in Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, and Professor at Future Africa, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria

Occasionally, a mutation will give the virus a better chance of surviving and reproducing itself, and will result in a new population (known as a new lineage)

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