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New COVID-19 variants under the microscope as travel bans mount over UK mutation – UN News
The UN health agency chief said on Monday that scientists have been working to understand new COVID-19 variants that have been reported in South Africa and the…
According to news reports, more than 40 countries have now banned arrivals from the UK, because of mounting concerns over a new, more transmissible mutation of the new coronavirus, although health officials there stress that there is no evidence it is more deadly, or that it would not respond in the same way to the vaccines cleared for emergency use.
The bottom line is that we need to suppress transmission of all SARS-CoV-2 viruses as quickly as we can, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General…
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