But stressed there is nothing to suggest it is more deadly or resistant to vaccine
Cases are soaring in South East – with Kent seeing 1,709 positive tests yesterday
A SAGE expert has called the emergence of a new mutant strain of coronavirus that has forced the cancellations of Christmas as the ‘worst moment of the pandemic’ – as it was revealed the variant is 70 per cent more infectious than others.
British epidemiologist John Edmunds said today that as far as he’s concerned ‘this is the worst moment of the epidemic because of the extraordinary infectivity of the new strain’ of Covid-19.ADVERTISEMENThttps://f262db804456eaf888a0be2bafddf170.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html?n=0
But stressed there is nothing to suggest it is more deadly or resistant to vaccine
Cases are soaring in South East – with Kent seeing 1,709 positive tests yesterday
A SAGE expert has called the emergence of a new mutant strain of coronavirus that has forced the cancellations of Christmas as the ‘worst moment of the pandemic’ – as it was revealed the variant is 70 per cent more infectious than others.
British epidemiologist John Edmunds said today that as far as he’s concerned ‘this is the worst moment of the epidemic because of the extraordinary infectivity of the new strain’ of Covid-19.ADVERTISEMENThttps://6063139aeaa5924a6e093f233a3f2e31.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html?n=0
All 32 London boroughs and the city of London.
Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Milton Keynes, Luton, Peterborough
Hertfordshire
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The new strain is 70 per cent more contagious and on the brink of overwhelming hospitals in the worst-hit areas.
Mr Johnson told 18million people they must sacrifice Christmas this year.
Travel and mixing households are banned from today under the new highest level resctrictions - with families elsewhere only allowed to form Christmas bubbles for one day on December 25 itself.
The drastic move will dash families hopes of Christmas together after a torrid year and force millions of people to stay home for weeks to come.
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He said that “urgent work is underway” to make sure it doesn’t affect the mortality rate.
“As announced on Monday, the UK has identified a new variant of COVID-19 through Public Health England’s [(PHE)] genomic surveillance,” Whitty said in a statement.
“As a result of the rapid spread of the new variant, preliminary modelling data and rapidly rising incidence rates in the South East, the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) now consider that the new strain can spread more quickly.”
Whitty said the UK had alerted the World Health Organisation and is continuing to analyse the available data.
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British scientists are now trying to establish whether the rapid spread in southern England of the new variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is linked to key mutations they have detected in the strain. December 18, 2020 / 03:40 PM IST
A new, mutated variant of coronavirus has been discovered in the UK, raising questions and apprehensions about its spread and nature, and more importantly its impact on the vaccination drive.
British scientists are now trying to establish whether the rapid spread in southern England of the new variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is linked to key mutations they have detected in the strain.