SAGE advisers have warned that the highly infectious Kent strain of coronavirus could lead to more deaths in 2021 than the 70,000 recorded in 2020, unless the roll-out of the vaccine is accelerated. They said the variant – named B.1.1.7 and thought to be between 50 and 74 per faster spreading than its predecessor – … Read more
The coronavirus vaccine programme must be speeded up, politicians and business leaders said on Wednesday night. Jeremy Hunt led calls to accelerate the roll-out as the pandemic tightened its grip with a fast-spreading new variant. ‘Time is against us with this new strain so we now need a great national effort to turbocharge the vaccination … Read more
By David Churchill What has happened to the coronavirus to trigger such concern? A new strain of Covid has developed which is said to spread far faster. A ‘strain’ is a new version of a virus which has genetic mutations. The new strain is a version of Sars-Cov-2, the coronavirus which causes the disease Covid-19. … Read more
By David Churchill What has happened to the coronavirus to trigger such concern? A new strain of Covid has developed which is said to spread far faster. A ‘strain’ is a new version of a virus which has genetic mutations. The new strain is a version of Sars-Cov-2, the coronavirus which causes the disease Covid-19. … Read more
Children may be more at-risk of catching the new mutated coronavirus variant than any previous strains, Government advisers today claimed. Professor Neil Ferguson, an epidemiologist of Imperial College London and member of No10’s advisory group NERVTAG, said there was a ‘hint’ children – who have barely been affected by the pandemic so far – were … Read more
Children may be more at-risk of catching the new mutated coronavirus variant than any previous strains, Government advisers today revealed. Professor Neil Ferguson, an epidemiologist of Imperial College London and member of the No10 advisory group NERVTAG, said there was a ‘hint’ that children were more susceptible to the mutation. The academic, known as ‘Professor … Read more
By David Churchill What has happened to the coronavirus to trigger such concern? A new strain of Covid has developed which is said to spread far faster. A ‘strain’ is a new version of a virus which has genetic mutations. The new strain is a version of Sars-Cov-2, the coronavirus which causes the disease Covid-19. … Read more
There is a ‘very low’ risk of mink spreading a mutant form of coronavirus to people living in the UK, Public Health England has insisted. Fears over a newly-evolved strain of Covid have been raised after Denmark said one — dubbed ‘Cluster 5’ — was less responsive to antibodies, which could render a vaccine useless … Read more
Israel is feared to be the latest country to be hit by the mutated strain of coronavirus spread by mink in Denmark. The Israeli Health Ministry is testing three citizens who recently returned from the Scandinavian country where the new infection is spreading from animals to humans. If positive, Israel could join the US, Italy, … Read more
A mutated strain of coronavirus that originated in Spain may be the culprit behind Europe’s catastrophic second wave, a study has claimed. An international team of scientists tracking the virus as it spreads and evolves, said the variant, called 20A.EU1, is behind 90 per cent of cases in the UK since summer. Every virus mutation … Read more