updated: Dec 21 2020, 07:47 ist
Just as vaccines begin to offer hope for a path out of the pandemic, officials in Britain this past weekend sounded an urgent alarm about what they called a highly contagious new variant of the coronavirus circulating in England.
Citing the rapid spread of the virus through London and surrounding areas, Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed the country’s most stringent lockdown since March.
“When the virus changes its method of attack, we must change our method of defence,” he said.
Train stations in London filled with crowds of people scrambling to leave the city as the restrictions went into effect. On Sunday, European countries began closing their borders to travellers from the United Kingdom, hoping to shut out the new iteration of the pathogen.
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Covid-19 will take years, not months, to render vaccine ineffective: Experts
December 21, 2020
Report further stated that so far coronavirus variant in Britain has around 20 mutations After Britain witnessed an unprecedented surge in the coronavirus cases about the new strain of the virus, health experts urged caution and said that Covid-19 will take years, not months, to evolve enough to render the current vaccine against the virus ineffective, New York Times (NYT) reported.
Easing the worry, the scientists stated that a single catastrophic incident is not going to render all immunities impotent.
According to NYT, researchers have recorded thousands of modifications in the genetic material of SARS-CoV-2 as it has “hopscotched across the world.”