Covid-19: Kent strain ‘to sweep the world’, and jab priority for ‘severe’ asthma – BBC News

Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday morning. We’ll have another update for you this evening.
The coronavirus variant which was first detected in Kent last year is set to become the world’s dominant strain, according to the head of the UK’s genetic surveillance programme. Prof Sharon Peacock told the BBC’s Newscast podcast the new variant has “swept the country” and “it’s going to sweep the world, in all probability”. The Kent variant was originally…

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