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Covid-19: UK variant raises risk of community transmission – Baker – Stuff.co.nz
Epidemiologist Michael Baker says the more infectious Covid variant means an increased risk of community transmission, and more needs to be done to curb it.
This story was originally published on RNZ.co.nz and is republished with permission.
There is an increased risk of community transmission from the UK strain of Covid-19 that is now arriving in the country, says epidemiologist Michael Baker.
There were 31 new imported cases of Covid-19 reported today, with the Health Ministry also revealing that 19 people have tested positive for the more infectious UK variant of the virus at the New Zealand border in the past four weeks.
The variant is considerably…
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