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Second New Covid Strain Confirmed In The UK

Two cases of another new COVID-19 variant linked to South Africa have been identified in the UK, ...

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08.38 24 Dec 2020


Second New Covid Strain Confirmed In The UK


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08.38 24 Dec 2020


Two cases of another new COVID-19 variant linked to South Africa have been identified in the UK, that country's health minister has said.  Matt Hancock said that both cases are contacts of people who travelled from South Africa over the last few weeks. For more on this we were joined by Kingston Mills, Kingston Mills Professor of Experimental Immunology at Trinity College Dublin.

 

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