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Covid variant: Government would have faced ‘cover-up’ claims – Nottinghamshire Live
Boris Johnson said new mutant strain may be associated with ‘a higher degree of mortality’
A top scientific adviser has defended the Governments decision to reveal evidence suggesting the UK coronavirus variant is more deadly, but said that the news needed to be put into perspective.
Professor Peter Horby, who chairs the Governments New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said that if the information had not been released, authorities may have been accused of covering it up.
It comes following a Downing Street press conference in which Boris Johnson said the…
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