UK identifies new Covid-19 variant first found in Yorkshire
Dr Kev Smith from PHE said a “strange combination of mutations” was spotted a few weeks ago. He said additional testing and tracing was taking place to monitor the spread of the variant. "So far the people that we have identified are not particularly infectious, they're not really getting more sick than other cases of coronavirus and we're not seeing anything particularly worrying about it," he said. "At the moment, we don't think it's more infectious than the other coronaviruses that we are seeing around." The variant has been labelled a “variant under investigation”. It will progres...