Boris Johnson warns a THIRD Covid strain could be heading to the UK: PM says No10 is ‘taking steps’ to stop Brazilian variant which experts fear is similar to highly contagious Kent and South African strains The strain looks similar to the ones that emerged in Kent and in South Africa This suggests it could … Read more
The super-infectious South African strain of coronavirus is already ‘taking root’ in the UK, experts have warned. So far the Government has only announced two cases of the variant in the UK, both were patients in London who had been in contact with travellers from South Africa last month. But a top SAGE scientist claimed … Read more
The super-infectious South African strain of coronavirus is already ‘taking root’ in the UK, experts have warned. So far the Government has only announced two cases of the variant in the UK, both were patients in London who had been in contact with travellers from South Africa last month. But a top SAGE scientist claimed … Read more
The South African strain of coronavirus isn’t spreading rapidly through the UK, No10’s scientific advisers said today in a bid to calm fears about the super-infectious variant. So far only two people in Britain have tested positive for the mutated strain, which has been subject to international panic after causing an explosion of cases in South … Read more
Brazil now has its own dangerous mutant coronavirus variation that vaccines may not work as well against. It shares the mutations seen in the South African variant – but is an entirely separate form, as far as scientists can tell – that may disguise it from the antibodies the immune system develops after being infected … Read more
Cases of the new super-infectious variant of coronavirus started to level off and even drop in London, the East and South East over the Christmas school holiday. Graphs presented at a Downing St news conference tonight showed the proportion of positive tests caused by the new variant appeared to fall across the capital and the … Read more
Public health experts are warning that the new mutant British variant of the novel coronavirus in the U.S. will make vaccination efforts a ‘formidable challenge.’ The new strain, known as SARS-CoV-2 VUI 202012/01, is feared to be 70 percent more transmissible and to spread more easily among children. So far, the ‘super-COVID’ variant has only … Read more
New strain of coronavirus ravaging London and south east is 54 per cent more infectious than other variant, PHE study finds The new strain is driving surging infections across London, south east and east Analysis has now revealed that the new strain is 54 per cent more infectious In more positive news, the variant isn’t … Read more
A strain of the coronavirus very similar to the UK mutation was already circulating in Italy as early as August, a top virologist has said. The ‘Italian variant’ was spreading weeks before the first known cases of the UK strain and could even have been a ‘precursor’ to the mutation in England, according to Arnaldo … Read more
South Africa is suffering a powerful second wave of Covid-19 caused by a new strain of the disease similar to the British variant which is feared to be more contagious and driving a surge of infections among young people. Cases in South Africa have risen from fewer than 3,000 a day at the start of … Read more