A rapidly spreading strain of coronavirus appeared in England

Tighter restrictions than the highest level of epidemic preparedness will go into effect in London and south-east England on Sunday, following the emergence of a new strain of coronavirus that has spread much faster than before in those areas, said the Saturday night. Boris johnson British Prime Minister.

The main change is that the infectivity of the new variant can be much, up to 70 percent higher than the variants identified so far.

and this is already evident in the rate of spread of the epidemic in the affected areas. According to the MTI summary, the almost complete closure will occur in and around London from Sunday, and the people who live here will leave their homes for exceptional reasons and will not visit each other at home on Christmas. The BBC writes that Wales will also be closed from midnight.

Johnson and Sir Patrick Vallance The professor, the British government’s chief scientific adviser, emphasized at a press conference in Downing Street that no study showed any changes that would make the new coronavirus mutation more serious than previous versions, and

There is also no indication that the vaccines developed so far are less effective against the new strain.

Boris Johnson said at the press conference that this is a race now, but he is very sure that by spring a significant part of the population will be able to get vaccinated and everything will look very different for Easter.