Covid 19 coronavirus: Experts predict mutations to continue
16 Jan, 2021 11:40 PM
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Scientists are racing to work out if existing vaccines will work against the new variants. Photo / AP
Scientists are racing to work out if existing vaccines will work against the new variants. Photo / AP
Daily Telegraph UK
ANALYSIS: Viruses, it turns out, have something in common with buses. You wait the best part of a year for a new variant to come along and then three or four turn up at once - each a little faster, fitter and stronger than those that went before.
Such is the evolutionary advantage acquired by the UK variant that it has been described as causing a pandemic within a pandemic . The chaos it has wreaked since first getting a grip in November was this weekend predicted to come to a crescendo in the capital.
The Vaccines Manufacturing Innovation Centre in Oxfordshire will add significant firepower to Britain s immunisation infrastructure when it launches later this year.
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Super Saturday – more than 5,000 health and social care staff were booked in for vaccinations at NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital on Saturday
Credit: Wattie Cheung
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Vaccination centre at the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow, where up to 5,000 health and social care staff are expected to take part in a mass coronavirus vaccination exercise
Credit: Simon Cassidy/NHS Golden Jubillee/PA
Viruses, it turns out, have something in common with buses. You wait the best part of a year for a new variant to come along and then three or four turn up at once – each a little faster, fitter and stronger than those that went before.