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UK health boss: Mutant may ‘undermine vaccines, sweep the world’
Friday February 12, 2021
The coronavirus variant first found in the British region of Kent is a concern because it is mutating and so could undermine the protection given by vaccines against developing COVID-19, the head of the UK’s genetic surveillance program says.
A British health chief has warned that the UK variant may spread more rapidly. (Photo: AAP)
She also said the UK variant was dominant in the country and was likely “to sweep the world, in all probability”.
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