Experts are cautioning officials not to lift protective measures too fast in fear of opening the floodgates to a fresh outbreak. But scientific advisers have not gone as far as calling for Boris Johnson to make changes to his roadmap out of lockdown. The UK was hit by a new strain of the Covid that first emerged in Kent shortly before Christmas. The mutant variant is now the dominant strain in the UK, and has spread out to Europe and elsewhere in the world. The South African variant is also worrying officials in Europe and in the UK as a new study revealed it may harbour defences against current vaccines.

Source: Daily Mirror March 20, 2021 13:56 UTC