Coronavirus variant from India not spreading as quickly as feared in Britain, expert says

The Covid-19 variant first identified in India may be spreading less quickly than first feared, a leading British epidemiologist said on Wednesday, but vaccines might be less effective at limiting its spread.Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday warned that the emergence of the B. 1.617.2 variant might derail his plans to lift England’s lockdown fully on June 21 but said that it all depended on the degree to which it spread.“There’s … a glimmer of hope from the recent data that, whilst this…

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