epaselect epa08986946 Researchers work with samples of Covid-19, in the Laboratory of Diagnosis in Emerging and Reemerging Diseases (LaDEER) of the University of Guadalajara (UDG), state of Jalisco, Mexico, 03 February 2021 (Issued 04 February 2021). Mexican authorities and scientists are investigating a possible new strain of the coronavirus that causes covid-19 that would have been born in the western state of Jalisco and that would be added to other mutations that have arisen in the United Kingdom, Brazil or South Africa. Researchers from the Laboratory for the Diagnosis of Emerging and Reemerging Diseases (LaDEER) of the University of Guadalajara announced this week that they found a variation of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in the samples of four infected people.  EPA/Francisco Guasco