U.K. In the UK Coronavirus variant ‘potential’

Adam, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services. Brett Giroir said Monday that a new, rapidly spreading strain of coronavirus in the United Kingdom is already present in the US, although he warned that there was no evidence yet of the presence of officers. .

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White House Test Tsar: U.K. In the UK Coronavirus variant ‘potential’

In an interview with “Good Morning America”, Giroir warned that authorities suspect that the new virus mutations could spread to the U.S. And U.S. Although there are more than a dozen countries that have banned North American travel since, the UK has become North American.

“We don’t have proof that he’s here, but we doubt he’s here given the global interrelationships.” “We don’t have any evidence that it’s here. It’s certainly not widespread here, but we need to look at it and make sure it’s not here.”

“And we still believe – not complete evidence – but we have very good evidence and a good belief that this vaccine will still be effective,” Giroire added.

No. H.H.S. While the new strain of COVID-19 is spreading at a rapid rate, it is believed that U.S. “There is no evidence that it is more serious” than the version spread in.

His comments echoed Scott Gottlieb, the former chief of the Food and Drug Administration, who told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that the new strain of COVID-19 “probably has a reasonable number of people here in the United States.”

“We don’t order a lot of samples in this country, and the sequencing that happens happens in a lot of private labs and doesn’t collect in public databases. It needs to be improved,” Gottlieb said of the test. Making US efforts to track stress issues. “In the UK, they’re indexing around 10 per cent of all samples. Here we’re fracting 1 per cent.”

Officials in Canada announced Saturday that they have found two cases of the new Covid-19 strain, which appeared in a couple with no travel history or no contact with the virus.

The U.S. passed 19 million total confirmed COVID-19 cases on Sunday, while the virus killed more than 320,000 people nationwide.