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Coronavirus introduced to UK more than 1,000 times in first wave – Evening Standard
The UK was hit with more than 1,000 separate introductions of Covid during the first wave – with a third coming from Spain, researchers have found.
The UK was hit with more than 1,000 separate introductions of Covid during the first wave – with a third coming from Spain, researchers have found.
Spain accounted for 33 per of transmission chains during the first wave, according to the researchers, with France accounting for 29 per cent of the imports and Italy 12 per cent.
China, meanwhile, was responsible for only 0.4 per cent of the introduction of transmission chains in the UK.
Based on the findings, published in the journal Science, the researchers…
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