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How the more contagious COVID variants swept across Europe – Sydney Morning Herald

New data shows more than 75 per cent of coronavirus cases sequenced in Europe last month were found to be the more contagious Kent variant.

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Paris: Much of mainland Europe is now firmly in the grip of the more contagious variant of COVID-19 originally discovered in Kent, sending countries back into various forms of lockdown.
The data on variants and their spread, compiled by genomic researchers, shows more than 75 per cent of coronavirus cases sequenced on the continent in the first week of March were found to be the Kent variant, up from around 14 per cent at the end of last year.
People walk on the streets of Warsaw, Poland, which…

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