Britain Sounds Alarm About Mutant Coronavirus Strain batonrougepost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from batonrougepost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
MINISTERS have met to discuss how to contain the rising number of coronavirus infections across England. It comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was hoping to avoid another national lockdown in England. Analysis suggests the R number - which represents how many people each infected person passes the virus onto - has risen above 1 in the UK again.
York has seen an uptick in cases over recent days. Government scientists are continuing to evaluate the spread of a new variant of Covid in south-east England as there are growing concerns about its transmission. The news comes as Ewan Birney, deputy director-general of European Molecular Biological Laboratory, told the BBC that a new variant had been growing very strongly in the south of England but it was not possible to say definitively that it was transmitting faster than others or whether it was because the number of cases, in general, was growing.
New coronavirus strain in south-east England prompts fears of third lockdown msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.