Thailand Medical News appears to be a bunch of nut-jobs, read the "About" page on the website.
The report they link to and have sensationalised is on the medRxiv site which clearly states:
Preprints are preliminary reports of work that have not been certified by peer review. They should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.
And from my brief reading of the actual report (my medical knowledge stops at aspirin), it just looks like some researchers in France have identified a variant that, when compared to the original Wuhan virus, has some of the properties (mutations) of other variants (remember Beta, Gamma, Theta etc. ?) but isn't exactly the same as others so they've added it's profile to the list and called it IHU.
By the sound of it, there have been lots of different mutations identified and cataloged, which is logical for evolutionary progress, but most are localised and unsuccessful.
I ain't getting excited yet.
Just sayin.
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