Introduction: Except
D614G, all the critical variants we reviewed here contain mutations in NTD: for example,
L18F in variant 501.V2 and P.1,
T20N and
P26N in variant P.1, DeltaH69/DeltaV70 in Cluster 5 and VOC 202012/01, Y144 deletion in VOC 202012/01, 242-244 deletion and
R246I in VOC 202012/01.