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The newspaper says 1,723 cases of B1617.2, designated a “variant of concern” on Friday by Public Health England (PHE), have been identified by the Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK). “While some of these will be duplicates, if the figure is confirmed by PHE in its weekly update this would be more than three times last week’s number of 520.” The worry is that this version of coronavirus “could be more infectious and more resistant to antibodies because it carries two key mutations previously spotted in other dominant variants”, explains Metro. Bolton has become the country’s “epicentre”, with 47 cases of the strain, which accounts for 55.3% of all cases in the area, says the newspaper. Other hotspots include Blackburn with Darwen, South Northamptonshire and Bedford.

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