Covid-19: UK variant spotted in Senegal Published on 28.01.2021 at 20h21 by APA News Share The new British strain of the coronavirus, known to be more contagious and deadly is now present in Senegal, Professor Souleymane Mboup announces.After Gambia, it is Senegal’s turn to nab the British variant of Covid-19. The latter was found in the samples of the second series of sequencing of the second wave, which is currently raging in Senegal, Professor Mboup explains. The director of the Institute for Health Research, Epidemiological Surveillance and Training (Iressef) was speaking at the daily press briefing from the Ministry of Health and Social Action dedicated to the pandemic situation.