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US eyeing UK COVID-19 variant but S.Africa one more … – Thomson Reuters Foundation
HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/USA (PIX):U.S. eyeing UK COVID-19 variant but S.Africa one more concerning -NIH’s Collins
WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) – The United States is closely watching the more infectious variant of COVID-19 after British officials warned that it may also be more deadly, U.S. National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins said on Saturday.
But U.S. health officials are somewhat more worried about a separate variant from South Africa, although that one has not yet been identified among U.S. cases of the novel coronavirus, he told MSNBC in an interview.
Collins noted the UK’s data was preliminary,…
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