and TANYA SMITH-CARTWRIGHT
WITH a new strain of COVID-19 spreading in parts of England, Health Minister Renward Wells said while there are no immediate plans to impose a travel ban against the UK, officials will continue to closely monitor the situation.
The mutation is said to be 70 percent more contagious than other strains of the coronavirus.
“Well, you’re speaking about the virulent strain that is now in the UK, the southern part of the UK and spreading,” Mr Wells said before going into a Cabinet meeting yesterday.
“It is not more virulent, it’s not more deadly than the current COVID that we’re experiencing though it transmits much more readily, much more easily. But we’ve had other strains of COVID also if you remember back in February, March and in Italy, there was a particular strain in Italy that was extremely infectious as well.”