Restrictions for parts of England over new strain of virus

Saturday, 19 Dec 2020*22:53

Passengers faced packed train carriages out of London as many attempted to flee the capital this evening

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that London and the south-east of England are to be placed into a new higher tier of Covid-19 restrictions because of the spread of a more infectious variant of the virus.

The move comes after scientists on the British government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NervTag) concluded that the mutated strain identified by Public Health England - known as VUI2020/01 - was spreading more quickly.

"It may be up to 70% more transmissible than the old variant, the original version of the disease," Mr Johnson told a news conference this afternoon.

"This is early data and is subject to review, but it is the best that we have at the moment and we have to act on information as we have it because this is now spreading very fast," said Mr Johnson.*

However, Mr Johnson said there is no reason to believe the new strain*is more dangerous or is resistant to vaccines.

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/...2-uk-covid-19/

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