WHO tracking new ‘mu’ coronavirus variant

By David Hogberg

Published September 1, 2021 9:38pm ET

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WHO tracking new ‘mu’ coronavirus variant — The logo of the World Health Organization is seen at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, June 11, 2009. The World Health Organization held an emergency swine flu meeting Thursday and was likely to declare the first flu pandemic in 41 years as infections climbed in the United States, Europe, Australia, South America and elsewhere. | (Anja Niedringhaus/AP)

The World Health Organization is monitoring another coronavirus variant, one that could be more resistant to vaccines.

The agency added the mu variant to its list of “variants of interest” on Monday.

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