The COVID-19 variant first identified in India may be spreading less quickly than first feared, a leading British epidemiologist said on Wednesday, but vaccines might be less effective at limiting its spread.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday warned that the emergence of the B.1.617.2 variant might derail his plans to lift England's lockdown fully on June 21 but said that it all depended on the degree to which it spread."There's ...
Graham Medley, also a member of SAGE and a professor of disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that while the variant was growing quickly in some places, "we haven't yet seen it take off and grow rapidly everywhere else".
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