Following days of speculation and rising case numbers, Public Health England (PHE) has escalated one sub-type of the Indian coronavirus variant to a “variant of concern”.
According to PHE, evidence suggests the variant, known as B.1.617.2, is “at least as transmissible” as the Kent variant discovered last year, which caused a spike in transmission across the UK.
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