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Hejoins us now. good evening to you. hello. just going back to what we heard this evening and the prime minister's justifications for these restrictions, he says he is buying time, he wants to slow the spread of the variant until we learn more about it. ., ., ., ., about it. could he have done more? i don't thinkthis _ about it. could he have done more? i don't think this is _ about it. could he have done more? i don't think this is an _ about it. could he have done more? i don't think this is an unreasonable i don't think this is an unreasonable suite of measures and i don't think the timing ...

I don't think this is an unreasonable suite of measures and i don't think the timing is at all unreasonable, we only learned about this in about the past 48 hours. time is everything, it does matter, because at the moment we know virtually nothing about this new virus. we have got a suite of symptoms that people have documented from south africa that sound encouraging, doctors dare say it does not seem to produce severe disease and that is a tick in the right box. we have got a genetic code and what we have been able to do is line up the genetic code for the variant alongside the genetic code ...

Coronavirus like delta, which is why you are seeing the stories of this mutation and this change and we have seen this before and this one we have not. what has got people worried is if you look at where these genetic changes are, they localise in the genetic code with the pace that it uses to make the outer coat of the virus and specifically the spike on the outer coat and that is what it uses to infect ourselves. it is also what we use to make the vaccinations that then make us immune to coronavirus and that is why people are concerned, because if the virus changes the shape of that bit, it ...

Vaccine-generated immunity, is one of the degrees. it's not like turning a light switch on and off. if we have a vaccine that's currently 90% effective, you know, with the new variant that could decrease by any sort of measure. it's very likely that will there will still be some protection, as you say, you know, the really tremendous thing about our vaccines is they're very strong protection against severe illness and death. there's certainly no evidence so far that this new variant causes more severe disease. we just don't know enough yet. i think it's very likely the vaccine still will have ...

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