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How the UK variant of the coronavirus spread across the world – Reuters UK
How a deadly and more contagious variant of the coronavirus tore through the UK and across the world.
It started as a single genetic sample in a British database of many thousands.
Scientists at Britain’s COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK) first detected the B.1.1.7 variant of coronavirus in September in the English county of Kent. It took almost three months before they discovered that the “Kent variant” was 70% more transmissible than existing variants, and further weeks before another shocking discovery: It was also much deadlier.
The coronavirus has undergone thousands of mutations since…
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