Health authorities plan tests to detect new strains of COVID-19
Health authorities are to introduce new gene sequencing tests to identify any further strains of COVID-19 after a highly-infectious variant of the virus was detected in the UK. Health Minister Chris Fearne said that samples would be taken from some of the 1,493 people with the virus in an effort to map out the scope of the disease in Malta with more detail. So far the UK variant, known as VUI–202012/01, has not yet been detected in any of Malta's cases. It is said to be up to 70 per cent more transmissable, leading to dozens of countries, including Malta, banning travel to and from the...