Covid, “the new variant of the virus discovered in the UK circulates faster.” Christmas rules change in London: no guests

the December 14th and then himwho claimed to have no evidence that he behaved differently than the coronavirus. But today the British authorities informed theWorld Health Organization that the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 drawn in southeastEngland can circulate more quickly.

“It is not yet clear, however, if it is more lethal,” he specified. Chris whitty, who heads the health authority in UK. Yesterday, the Rt rate of spread of infections of COVID-19 in Britain it returned for the first time since last month above danger threshold 1 (1.1-1.2 compared to 0.9-1 previously), beyond which contagion begins to be exponential. The index had fallen below level 1 as a result of the emergency shutdown national bis imposed on England until December 2, then it recovered, perhaps also due to the spread of a mutated variant of the virus. Johnson today refused to rule out a third overall block later Christmas, but decided to move the capital and south-east England to level 4 restrictions. So there are no guests at home for Christmas a London and in the areas subject to the most restrictive measures it will not be possible to find families other than one’s own. As for the rest of England, it is believed that a maximum meeting limit between two households will be announced, and not three as planned so far. The new restrictions eliminated the easing promised in recent days between December 23 and 27.

Previous – At the end of October, another new variant had been identified thanks to studies carried out by Swiss and Spanish researchers, respectively from the University of Basel and the Institute of Biomedicine of Valencia. In fact, scholars had identified a new variant of Sars-CoV-2 which in early summer had begun to spread to many European countries, probably with the complicity of tourism in spain. The new variant identified is called 20A.EU1 in the summer that it was present in Spain and then in September it was found between 40 and 70 percent of the cases detected in Switzerland, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Later it also spread to Norway, Latvia, Holland and France and Italy.