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New COVID-19 variant growing rapidly in England
The new SARS-CoV-2 variant is growing rapidly, is more transmissible than other variants, and affecting a greater proportion of under 20s.
New variant of concern
This higher transmissibility will make control more difficult and further accentuates the urgency of rolling out vaccination as quickly as possible. Professor Neil Ferguson Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team
All viruses undergo genetic changes which are called mutations, and through selection pressure can result in different variants. The variant of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus causing COVID-19) originally termed lineage B.1.1.7, was detected in November 2020 and is rapidly spreading across England. Several genetic changes (substitutions and deletions) have immunological significance and are associated with diagnostic test failures. The absence of S gene target in an otherwise positive PCR test appears to be a highly specific marker for the B.1.1.7 lineage, which h
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Authorities in Germany said they detected a case of the UK coronavirus variant that dates back to November.
It s the first case of what officials have said is a more transmissible version of the virus in Lower Saxony, officials from the northwestern German state said.
The Hannover Medical School (MHH) retrospectively sequenced the virus genome of an infection from November.
The new mutated version of the virus was found in samples from a now-deceased older patient and his wife taken on November 27th and 30th, the federal state of Lower Saxony said in a press release. The finding was then confirmed by Berlin s Charité Hospital.