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Health Secretary Matt Hancock said new variant is 'highly concerning”
because it 'is yet more transmissible'

https://www.foxnews.com/health/uk-second-highly-concerning-coronavirus- variant-linked-south-africa-travel

Britain’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced on Wednesday that
another variation of the novel coronavirus has been detected in two people
who were contacts of cases that stemmed from recent travel to South
Africa.

Hancock announced the discovery on Wednesday while also listing more areas
of England that would enter Tier 4 restrictions.

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"Of course the fight against the virus is a global effort and we’re
constantly vigilant and looking around the world as part of our
surveillance," he said during a press conference. "And thanks to the
impressive genomic capability of the South Africans, we’ve detected two
cases of another new variant of coronavirus here in the U.K. Both are
contacts of cases who have traveled from South Africa over the past week."

Hancock said the new variant is "highly concerning" because it "is yet
more transmissible and it appears to have mutated further than the new
variant that was discovered in the U.K."

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As a result, while researchers continue to study the potential
implications of the variant, the U.K. has ordered new cases and close
contacts of cases detected in the U.K. to quarantine, and placed immediate restrictions on travel from South Africa.

"Anyone in the U.K. who has been in South Africa in the past fortnight,
and anyone who is a close contact of someone who has been in South Africa
in the past fortnight must quarantine immediately," he said, adding that
they must restrict all contact "with any person, whatsoever."

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"We all know that 2020 has been a hard year and it's ending in this
festive period, which is going to be very different – after all the
efforts we’ve gone to to control this virus, and in many parts of the
country this virus is under control – just as we’ve got a tiered system in place that was able to control this virus, we discovered a new, more
contagious virus variant that is spreading at a dangerous rate," he said.

Pfizer has voiced confidence in its vaccine’s ability to protect against
the first variant that was discovered in the U.K., citing the mRNA’s "flexibility." It was not immediately clear how the second variant
differed from the first and if it would also be susceptible to the
vaccine.

Comments:

JLRfromNJ
16 hours ago

That strain has been around since September and is one of about 100
reported in the scientific literature. The original strain no longer
exists. None of these strains have been shown to be any more dangerous
than the original one, and this one has been shown to grow faster in
vitro, so they "think" it may be more transmissible, but no one knows. And
it's not the first strain that has these characteristics. This "new"
strain is already in the EU and cases have been identified as far away as Australia, so closing down travel now is just closing the barn door after
the horses have left the building. Its really pretty arrogant of us to
think we can control an airborne virus with transmission characteristics
like the common cold. It is going to run its course one way or the other.



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