Covid, here’s what we know so far about the English variant

12/20/2020 Health, World



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Alarm for new variant of the COVID-19, recognized by the first time in england and now in a case also in the Netherlands. The Netherlands immediately blocked all flights arriving from the UK.

The British authorities have reported to WHO that the newly tracked coronavirus variant may circulate faster. London in hard lock from today.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has made it known that it is in “close contact” with the UK authorities following the discovery of the new mutated variant of the Covid virus that supposedly much higher transmissibility, quantified at 70% more yesterday by Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a press conference.

In a tweet the UN agency wrote about stars Sharing information with London and commit to providing all updates to other member states.

To the head of England’s health authority, Chris Whitty, however the Vaccine for COVID-19 must induce optimism although for now it is “just a guess” that works against the new variant. Although the variant has not been shown to be more lethal, although it is more easily transmitted, there is no element yet which leads to think that it may be vaccine resistant distribution of which is starting these days.
“I think this situation makes things worse – Prof. Whitty said at the press conference, quoted by the BBC – but there are things that lead to optimism, such as the next vaccine, as long as the vaccine works against this variant, which by the timing is just a guess. “