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An urgent meeting of the anti-crisis mechanism is scheduled for 11:00 on December 21, said Sebastian Fischer, official representative of the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the European Union.
On December 21, the Council of the European Union held a meeting of the anti-crisis mechanism in relation to the situation with a new type of coronavirus COVID-19. About this December 20 reported Sebastian Fischer, spokesman for the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the European Union, on his Twitter page.
“The German presidency of the Council of the EU has invited the member states of the union to an urgent meeting of the crisis mechanism The Integrated Political Response to the Crisis tomorrow morning at 11.00 local time (12.00 Kiev time)”, Fischer said.
He noted that the agenda includes the coordination of actions The European Union in response to a mutated coronavirus identified in the UK.
* The German @EUCouncil The presidency has invited #ME Member States to an urgent meeting of the #IPCR Crisis mechanism tomorrow morning at 11:00.
* On the agenda: EU coordination on the response to new # COVID-19 variant in the #UK . #Coronavirus– Sebastian Fischer (@SFischer_EU) December 20, 2020
After Great Britain, infection with the new mutated coronavirus was confirmed in the Netherlands, Australia, Denmark and Italy.
The identification of a new type of coronavirus, due to which the rate of spread of the disease in some parts of the United Kingdom has increased considerably, reported the UK Health Minister Matt Hancock in the House of Commons on Tuesday 15 from December. For the time in the country confirmed more than a thousand cases of infection a new type of virus in 60 regions of the country.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the new version of the coronavirus could be 70% more infectious than the original.
Britain’s Chief Medical Officer, British government advisor on medicine Chris Whitty spoke about the rapid rate of spread of a new type of coronavirus. There is currently no evidence that the new strain of coronavirus is causing a higher death rate, he said.
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