Britain needs to increase vaccination rate from 350,000 people a week to TWO MILLION and have Tier 4 national lockdown to avoid 45,000 deaths from mutated Kent coronavirus, Sage model warns - but almost 40,000 more will STILL die
Members of SAGE sub-group SPI-M said the variant will infect a lot more people because it spreads faster
There's no proof that it is more dangerous or deadly but more cases will inevitably lead to more deaths
The variant is concentrated in London, the East and South East of England but is spreading elsewhere
Two cases of a second, potentially even faster spreading variant from South Africa were announced last night