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November lockdown ‘not strict enough for new Covid strain’ – The Times

The measures imposed during the English lockdown in November would not prevent an explosive growth of the new faster-spreading virus variant, scientists warned…

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The measures imposed during the English lockdown in November would not prevent an explosive growth of the new faster-spreading virus variant, scientists warned this morning.
Axel Gandy, chairman in statistics at Imperial College London, said that infections of the new variant would probably have tripled in two to three weeks.
Weve been able to determine that the new variant increases the reproduction number so thats the number of people infected on average per infected person in the future by about…

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