Wednesday, 30 December 2020 - 8:13
A Colorado man in the USA has the variant of the coronavirus from the United Kingdom that health officials say is more transmissable than other strains of the virus.
It is the first known case of the UK coronavirus variant in United States. Researchers from the UK estimated that the variant is 56% more transmissible.
The man, who is in his 20s and in isolation in Elbert County, has no travel history, according to media reports.
Many countries have banned flights from the United Kingdom with the identification of the new variant including Sri Lanka.
India has found six people who returned from Britain in recent weeks with a more infectious strain of the novel coronavirus that has prompted border closures around the world, as its daily increase in cases fell to a six-month low.
KARACHI: Majority of small businesses in Pakistan are expecting more than half of their profits lost to coronavirus lockdown in the unprecedentedly disastrous outgoing year, according to a.
Combined approach can be used to tackle climate change By HOU LIQIANG | China Daily Global | Updated: 2020-12-29 09:02 Share The Yangjiang Nanpeng Island offshore wind farm. [Photo/China General Nuclear Power Corp]
China s efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions can work in concert with its campaigns to control air pollution as a great proportion of the main greenhouse gas and air pollutants come from the same sources, according to experts and observers.
This synergy could play a major role in achieving climate targets, they said, adding that China needs to explore viable market mechanisms that incorporate the costs of carbon emissions into companies operations because many lack motivation to improve their efforts on climate action.