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UK health expert says no reason to think Covid variant from South Africa will become dominant strain – CNBC
Drugmaker AstraZeneca is now racing to adapt its Covid-19 vaccine in the face of the new variants.
LONDON Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, the U.K.’s deputy chief medical officer, played down the chances of a coronavirus variant from South Africa becoming widespread across the country in the coming months.
His comments, delivered at a news conference Monday evening, follow concerns that the AstraZeneca-University of Oxford jab shows limited effectiveness against that particular strain, known formally as the B.1.351 mutation.
“There is no reason to think the South African variant will catch up or overtake…
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