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Australia will not shut borders to UK despite new virus strain 9News.com.au 22/12/2020 Olivana Lathouris © AAP Australian Chief Medical Officer, Professor Paul Kelly, provides an update on COVID-19 in Canberra, Tuesday, December 22, 2020. Australia will not change its rules around international arrivals from the United Kingdom despite a new strain of COVID-19 spreading in England. Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly said Australia would continue to "welcome" overseas arrivals from the UK and while authorities were investigating the new virus strain, it does not yet pose a si...

Evidence UK virus strain is a mutation 'not convincing', expert says 9News.com.au 21/12/2020 Olivana Lathouris The latest strain of COVID-19 from the United Kingdom may not be as infectious as we first feared, an infectious disease expert told Today. Professor Peter Collingnon said the evidence surrounding the new strain "isn't convincing" enough to classify it as a mutation. "Data from England suggests the strain does transmit more readily but it's still not clear that people are getting together more over holiday periods or is it the strain itself?" READ MORE: © Getty S...