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Researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Genetics believe this is what happened after looking at an enzyme called nsp14. The enzyme’s purpose is to correct errors caused by replication.
Ituro Inoue, a genetics professor at the institute, said Delta couldn’t keep spreading and repair the errors that piled up at the same time.“
We were literally shocked to see the findings,’ Prof Inoue said. ‘The Delta variant in Japan was highly transmissible and keeping other variants out. But as the mutations piled up, we believe it eventually became a faulty virus and it was unable to make copies of itself.
‘Considering that the cases haven’t been increasing, we think that at some point during such mutations it headed straight toward its natural extinction.’
Ituro Inoue, a genetics professor at the institute, said Delta couldn’t keep spreading and repair the errors that piled up at the same time.“
We were literally shocked to see the findings,’ Prof Inoue said. ‘The Delta variant in Japan was highly transmissible and keeping other variants out. But as the mutations piled up, we believe it eventually became a faulty virus and it was unable to make copies of itself.
‘Considering that the cases haven’t been increasing, we think that at some point during such mutations it headed straight toward its natural extinction.’