Covid-19 UK: Strain more transmissible than Delta hits UK
A worrying new strain of Covid-19 that is more transmissible than Delta
has been found in the community in the UK.
Mitchell Van Homrigh
Moosk
July 5, 20213:46pm
It is a worrying sign for the UK which has recently relaxed Covid-19 restrictions after 37 million people received at least one dose of a vaccine.
The country had returned to normality in recent weeks with pubs flooded by revellers enjoying their country’s recent success at Euro 2020.
However, these civil liberties could change if the highly transmissible Lambda strain spreads across the community.
Cayetano Heredia University Professor Pablo Tsukayama said the strand has exploded in Peru with the new variant currently making up 82 per cent of cases in the South American country.
“That would suggest its rate of transmission is higher than any other variant,” he said.
His claims were backed up by a report from London’s Covid-19 Genomics Initiative at the Welcome Sanger Institute director Jeff Barrett.
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