Reaction in Nottinghamshire village near where new mutant Covid-19 strain has been detected
The strain has been detected in 57 areas across Britain - including near a Newark and Sherwood village
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A new study has found that the mutant strain of Covid-19 has been detected near Eakring in Nottinghamshire.
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Mutant strain of coronavirus was detected in Nottinghamshire village
A full list of 57 areas where it has been found has been released
09:38, 23 DEC 2020
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Dec. 23, 2020 2:03 pm ET
LONDON British public-health officials were mystified. Nationwide restrictions were driving down the spread of coronavirus across much of the country by late November. But in one part of southeast England infections were inexplicably surging.
Epidemiologists set out to investigate, at first assuming there had been some kind of superspreader event or that people were ignoring social-distancing rules at work, in illegal house parties, or elsewhere. They found nothing. Stumped, they turned to a team of scientists monitoring mutations in the virus’ genome.
On Dec. 8, the group, known as the Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium, found a new variant of the virus, with 23 mutations, in a sample taken from a patient in Kent, near the center of the outbreak in late September. They found the same variant in someone tested in London a day later.
Full list of 57 UK locations where mutant virus has been found
The new variant of coronavirus is widespread in the South East but has now spread across the country, including to Merseyside
08:03, 23 DEC 2020
A near empty Oxford Street in central London, where people have been advised against all but essential travel after the capital moved into Tier 4 of coronavirus restrictions. PA Photo. Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire (Image: PA)
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