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THE World Health Organisation (WHO) on Sunday said it is in “close contact” with United Kingdom (UK) officials over the emergence of a new variant of coronavirus and would update the public when it learns more about the characteristics of the virus variant and any implications.
The new variant first detected in UK is spreading more rapidly than the original version, but it is not believed to be deadlier.
There is no evidence to suggest the new variant reacts differently to vaccines. In the UK, large parts of south-east England, including London, are now under a new, stricter level of restrictions in a bid to curb the rapidly-spreading virus.
Anxiety as Sanwo-Olu tests positive, El-Rufai in isolation amid second COVID-19 wave
Our Correspondents
Nigerians are beginning to express anxiety due to reports of a likely second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, amid an economic recession and job losses reputedly caused by the first wave of the pandemic.
This is as the Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Saturday tested positive for COVID-19, while his Kaduna State counterpart, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, also on Friday evening announced that he was going into self-isolation as one of his family members and a government official tested positive for the virus.
It was the second time El-Rufai would go into isolation since February when the index case of the coronavirus was recorded in the country.