Plot after papa gets fresh Covid variant sans name in lab exposure? (15)

Times Cryptic #28611 | 2 Down | 2023-05-24
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

P for papa, HOT (fresh), OMICRO[N] a covid variant losing its N, GRAPH = plot. Obviously, a photomicrograph is a photograph taken through a microscope. I don’t see why Covid is capitalised in the clue, I’d have thought it should be informally covid or more correctly COVID-19.

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