New coronavirus version now no longer out of control, says WHO Date: 22 Dec,2020 The new coronavirus version discovered in Britain with a higher transmission rate is not yet out of control and can be contained using existing measures, the World Health Organization said on Monday. “We have had a much higher (contamination rate) at various points in this event and we have got it under control,” WHO’s emergencies chief Michael Ryan told a media conference. “So this situation isn’t in that sense out of control. But it can’t be left to its own devices.” British Health Secretary Matt Hancock had earlier claimed the new version was”out of control”, with British officials saying it was 70 percent more transmissible than the main strain.