Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeThe Kent variant now dominant in Britain could be twice as deadly as previous coronavirus variants, research shows. Epidemiologists from the universities of Exeter and Bristol identified 227 deaths in a sample of 55,000 NHS patients with the Kent variant. Following detailed analysis they concluded the variant called B.1.1.7 is between 30% and 100% as deadly. Lead author Robert Challen, of the University of Exeter said: “In the community, death from Covid-19 is still a rare event, but the B.1.1.7 variant raises the risk. The Prime Minister announced the Kent variant could kill 30% more people during a Downing Street briefing on January 22.

Source: Daily Mirror March 10, 2021 10:37 UTC