Combining vaccines is being researched in the UK As new variants emerge with estimates that there are 4,000 of them studies into combining different types of vaccines is already under way 04 February 2021 - 16:42 Guy Faulconbridge and Alistair Smout Picture: 123RF/SERGY CHAYKO
London The world faces about 4,000 variants of the virus that causes Covid-19, prompting a race to improve vaccines, Britain said on Thursday, as researchers begin to explore mixing doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots in a world first.
Thousands of variants have been documented as the virus mutates, including British, SA and Brazilian variants, which appear to spread more swiftly than others.
LONDON: The world faces around 4,000 variants of the virus that causes Covid-19, prompting a race to improve vaccines, Britain said on Thursday, as researchers began to explore mixing doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots.
Thousands of variants have been documented as the virus mutates, including the so-called British, South African and Brazilian variants which appear to spread more swiftly than others.
British Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi said it was very unlikely that the current vaccines would not work against the new variants. Its very unlikely that the current vaccine won t be effective on the variants whether in Kent or other variants especially when it comes to severe illness and hospitalisation, Zahawi told Sky News.
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Understanding the numbers
Since mid-July, daily reported COVID-19 cases in Florida remained under 10,000. And, between Sept. 1 and Oct. 16, daily reported cases stayed below 4,000.
That changed on
The
highest single-day case number Florida has reported so far is 19,816 for Jan. 6. The report released on Jan. 2 of 31,518 newly-reported cases is higher, but that reported combined updates for Dec. 31 and Jan. 1.
The
738, confirmed on Sept. 28.
On Oct. 30, Florida became the third state to cross the 800,000 reported COVID-19 cases mark. Then on Dec. 1,
Florida became the third state to surpass 1 million confirmed cases. As of Feb. 4, California and Texas have 3.3 and 2.4 million cases, respectively, according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.