The UK’s Variant and Mutant Taskforce has warned Health Secretary Matt Hancock Covid variants from France, Germany and the US have been imported to the UK. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog
A report from Public Health England, exclusively seen by Newsnight, has warned that Covid variants from abroad – including Ireland, France, Germany and the US – are being imported to the UK.
Could these variants reduce vaccine efficacy?
And how could this affect the UK’s roadmap out of lockdown?
Newsnight’s Policy Editor Lewis Goodall reports.
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