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New COVID-19 variant growing rapidly in England – Imperial College London
The new SARS-CoV-2 variant is growing rapidly, is more transmissible than other variants, and affecting a greater proportion of under 20s.
The new SARS-CoV-2 variant is growing rapidly, is more transmissible than other variants, and affecting a greater proportion of under 20s.
The new variant has a transmission advantage of 0.4 to 0.7 in reproduction number compared to the previously observed strain.
The findings come in a pre-print authored by a collaborative team from Imperial College London, University of Edinburgh, Public Health England (PHE), the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Birmingham and the COVID-19 Genomics…
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