2021-04-20 13:35:51 GMT2021-04-20 21:35:51(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
LONDON, April 20 (Xinhua) Buying time against new coronavirus variants is really important so that Britain can get the population vaccinated and get booster vaccines ready, a leading British scientist said Tuesday.
The new variant first emerged in India is more transmissible and there are good reasons for keeping it out of Britain, Mark Walport, who was the British government s chief scientific adviser from April 2013 to September 2017, told the BBC.
His remarks came one day after India was added to Britain s travel red list over new variant concerns. These decisions are almost inevitably taken a bit too late in truth, but what s absolutely clear is that this variant is more transmissible in India, said Walport, chief executive of the newly formed UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), which is responsible for the public funding of research and innovation.
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