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Covid-19: New variant ‘raises R number by up to 0.7’ – BBC News
A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.
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image captionResearchers have been tracking changes to the “spike” of the virus
The new variant of Covid-19 is “hugely” more transmissible than the virus’s previous version, a study has found.
It concludes the new variant increases the
Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.
The UK’s latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.
Prof Axel Gandy of London’s Imperial College said…
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