Though many across the globe have hopes that the roll-out of the new coronavirus vaccine will mean the end of the pandemic, officials in …
Though many across the globe have hopes that the roll-out of the new coronavirus vaccine will mean the end of the pandemic, officials in the United Kingdom have warned that there is a new potential threat on the horizon: a recently developed COVID-19 strain that spreads more quickly than the original virus. According to RTE, Professor Chris Whitty, who serves as England’s Chief Medical Officer, recently announced that doctors and scientists have come across a contagious new strain in the U.K. and has alerted the World Health Organization about the new disease. “As announced on Monday, the U. K, has identified a new variant of COVID-19 through Public Health England’s genomic surveillance,” he noted in a statement. The professor added that data showed that the outbreak appeared to be centered in the southeastern region of the country and that there was a “rapid spread of the new variant.
