A person who tested positive for the Brazilian variant of Covid has been tracked down to Croydon and appears not to have infected anyone else, the health secretary has said. Dr Susan Hopkins of Public Health England said the team trying to track down the mystery person included those from laboratories, logistics and data analytics – and said they all had very little information to go on. The person had arrived from Brazil before the hotel quarantine scheme came into force. Labour said the need for a campaign to find the person with the variant showed unforgivable government incompetence. The countries where the variant has been found, according to the World Health Organization, include France, Germany, Spain, the US and Italy.

Source: The Guardian March 05, 2021 16:26 UTC