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The new UK coronavirus variant may be 30% more deadly, Boris Johnson said on Friday as he warned of stricter travel curbs and continued lockdown measures while the infection rate remains “forbiddingly high”.

In findings that dampened hopes of the increasingly prevalent B117 variant becoming less lethal over time, researchers on the government’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) concluded that it may increase the death rate by 30%-40%.

Scientists urged tighter controls, and one said the news could take the country “back to square one”. It is also likely to increase the concerns of EU leaders, who were already considering strengthening border measures against the “British mutation”.


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Explaining the scale of the difference, he said for every 1,000 60-year-olds infected with the new strain, perhaps 13 or 14 might be expected to die, compared with 10 in 1,000 for the original strain.

The variant is also believed to be 30%-70% more transmissible. “There is no preferential age, it can affect anybody at any age, similarly to the original variant, the original virus,” Vallance said.


https://www.theguardian.com/wo...y-says-boris-johnson


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Mr. SK and I were just talking about that (it's being reporting in the Japanese news as well).

Very bad news. Frowner


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I'm waiting to hear if the vaccines are as effective against it.

This is kind of what happened with the 1918 Flu Pandemic.
A second Surge that affected everyone (in fact, most of all young adults ) - and caused by a much more lethal variant of the first version.


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