Tuesday, 29 Dec 2020 06:58 AM MYT Staff wait for start of vaccination against Covid-19 at the Treptow Arena vaccination centre in Berlin, Germany December 27, 2020. — Pool pic Reuters Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. BERLIN, Dec 29 — The new coronavirus variant discovered in Britain seems to have been present in Germany since November as doctors detected it retrospectively in samples of an older patient who later died, Die Welt daily reported yesterday. Specialists at the Hannover Medical School (MHH) were able to determine the virus variant B1.1.7 in samples of the patient who had medical preconditions, the newspaper said, citing the regional ministry of health in the state of Lower Saxony.