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LOndon’s policy of horror continues everywhere. The suspect mutant Sars-CoV-2 described in England should now be “with a high degree of certainty” much easier to transmit than the other variants of the virus circulating around the world. This is the official British reading, recorded by the PHE government investigation agency in London. And it is the reading of many professionals. The document was released exactly one day after a task force commissioned by the British government spoke of a “substantial increase” in transferability with “moderate confidence” in the available data. That certainly sounded more reserved.
So either the database has vastly improved overnight, or the interpretation of the data has approached the basic political mood characterized by slight panic after the border closure. However, the mood continues to darken. The finding that no German laboratory has yet confirmed the discovery of the mutant provides little relief. The catch: in this country, genome analyzes of virus variants are practically only carried out at the Berlin Charité. Germany allows this data breach and local specialists can do little to clarify this, they can only marvel.
Hygiene and vaccination rules apply
After all, there is ample guarantee, though by no means in the PHE document, that vaccines will also work against this variant and that Covid-19 disease should not get worse after infection with this mutant. Hygiene rules also apply. So the preliminary conclusion remains: the many, almost three dozen mutations that lead to some changes in the virus protein, which is crucial for infection, are biologically highly suspect. However, there will only be clarity when the British provide more epidemiological data and answer questions such as how quickly the variant spreads in which group of people. That can hardly be done before the New Year. So that means: continue to scare for the moment.
