New Covid-19 strains spread more quickly: UK medical chief

Reuters | London The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com A new strain of Covid-19 identified in the United Kingdom can spread more quickly and urgent work is underway to confirm that it does not cause a higher mortality rate, England's Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty s

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Published 19 December 2020, 8:00 · Updated 21:26

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New Covid-19 strains spread more quickly: UK medical chief

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The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

A new strain of Covid-19 identified in the United Kingdom can spread more quickly and urgent work is underway to confirm that it does not cause a higher mortality rate, England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said on Saturday.

“As announced on Monday, the UK has identified a new variant of Covid-19 through Public Health England’s genomic surveillance,” Whitty said in a statement.

“As a result of the rapid spread of the new variant, preliminary modelling data and rapidly rising incidence rates in the South East, the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) now consider that the new strain can spread more quickly.”

New Covid-19 strains spread more quickly: UK medical chief

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