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UK’s mutant Covid strain ‘is up to 90 per cent more DEADLY’ – Yahoo News Australia
Concerns have been raised over an even deadlier strain of the virus sweeping the globe.
There is some evidence that a new coronavirus variant first identified in southeast England carries a higher risk of death than the original strain.
The British governments chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance told a news conference Friday (local time) that there is evidence that there is an increased risk for those who have the new variant.
He said that for a man in his 60s with the original version of the virus, the average risk is that for 1,000 people who got infected, roughly 10 would…
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