UK Health Minister: New COVID strain is out of control – EU

British Health Minister Matt Hancock said today that the new strain of the new coronavirus was “out of control”. He thus justified the quarantine measures in London and part of England, which, in his opinion, could continue until mass vaccination, AFP reported.

Unfortunately, the new strain of the virus is out of control. We need to regain control and the only way to do that is to limit social contacts again, Hancock said on Sky News, BTA reports.

Scientists have called for united action in Europe to defeat the pandemic

Yesterday, the government of the conservative Boris Johnson announced that it was reintroducing the quarantine in London, in the south-east of England and in part of its eastern part. This will force more than 16 million Britons to stay home and give up Christmas gatherings.

The mutated variant of the new coronavirus was identified in September and is already spreading around the world. This was announced today by the World Health Organization expert Maria van Kerkhove in an interview with the BBC.

Great Britain discovered this variant of the virus in September in south-east England. We are witnessing the constant emergence of new coronavirus mutations. It is important to study them, see how they spread and what the consequences are, he added. The new version of KOVID-19 has been registered in the UK in Denmark, the Netherlands and Australia, the health expert said.

The new strain of coronavirus is up to 70% more contagious

The number of deaths since the beginning of the epidemic from complications of the new coronavirus in Britain has exceeded 67,000 and the kingdom is second in Europe in this grim statistic after Italy. There are now more than 2 million people infected with the pathogen in the UK.