The Brazil Covid variant has now been detected in the UK and is causing growing concern.
This variant was first detected in Brazil in December and has seen a mass transfer of Covid-19 patients out of Manaus, the Amazon s largest city, as it struggles with a shortage of oxygen tanks.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is very concerned about a new variant of coronavirus which has been identified in Brazil.
He told the Liaison Committee this week the Government is “taking steps” to ensure the new strain is not imported into the UK.
He said: “Well we are and we re putting in extra measures to ensure that people coming from Brazil are checked and indeed stopping people coming from Brazil.
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Scientists have discovered a coronavirus variant in the East African nation that is yet to be detected elsewhere in the world, the Daily Nation newspaper reported, citing Charles Agoti, a researcher at the Kenya Medical Research Institute.