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UK to support rest of world to find COVID-19 virus variants
UK genomics expertise and capacity to be offered worldwide to find new variants of SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19
The ‘New Variant Assessment Platform’ will help countries to identify changes in the virus, while providing an early warning of new mutations that could endanger the UK
New commitment to improve Global Health Security comes as the UK holds G7 presidency this year
The UK will offer its world-leading genomics expertise to identify new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 to countries who do not have the resources to do so.
UK to offer genomics resources for global Covid fight
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LONDON, Jan 26, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Britain will offer its genomics expertise to countries lacking resources to identify new variants of the virus that causes Covid-19, the government was set to announce Tuesday.
“This pandemic has shown that the foundations of so many of the exciting experiences that make life worth living are contingent not just on our health, or the health of our neighbours, but the health of people we’ve never met,” Health Secretary Matt Hancock was to say, according to extracts of his speech released by the government.
“When one of us suffers, we all suffer. So we must work to promote health security in every single part of the world,” he was to add.
26 Jan 2021 / 09:23 H. Britain’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock speaks during a virtual press conference on the COVID-19 pandemic, inside 10 Downing Street in central London on January 25, 2021. AFP / POOL / JOHN SIBLEY
LONDON, Jan 26: Britain will offer its genomics expertise to countries lacking resources to identify new variants of the virus that causes Covid-19, the government was set to announce Tuesday.
“This pandemic has shown that the foundations of so many of the exciting experiences that make life worth living are contingent not just on our health, or the health of our neighbours, but the health of people we’ve never met,“ Health Secretary Matt Hancock was to say, according to extracts of his speech released by the government.