WHO warns second year of pandemic ‘could be tougher’ as virus variant reaches 50 countries – The New Daily

The spread of coronavirus variants more contagious than the original strain could make the second year of the pandemic even tougher.
The warning from the World Health Organisation comes as coronavirus deaths in the US hit another one-day high at more than 4300.
Meanwhile, Japan has expanded a state of emergency to seven more prefectures as the country exceeded 300,000 infections.
Experts fear new variants of the virus that have been detected in the UK, South Africa and Brazil, are contributing to…

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