Health
No need for tougher rules for returned travellers after Australia records two cases of new COVID-19 strain – Brisbane Times
Australia’s newly appointed Chief Medical Officer said other factors in the UK could be leading to the spread of a new strain around the south-east of England.
The new strain, dubbed B117, is responsible for more than 60 per cent of COVID-19 infections in London. The UK’s Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty said the strain was “beating all the others in terms of transmission”.
Professor Edward Holmes, a virologist at the University of Sydney, said evidence around the new strain was troubling.
“This new virus variant called B117 is clearly cause for concern,” he said. “In the UK it is spreading faster than other variants and contains key mutations,…
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