"We now have high confidence that this variant does have a transmission advantage over other virus variants that are currently in the UK," said Peter Horby, a professor of emerging infectious diseases at Oxford University and chair of NERVTAG. "There is a hint that it has a higher propensity to infect children," said Neil Ferguson, a professor and infectious disease epidemiologist at Imperial College London and also a member of NERVTAG. How do children fight off the coronavirus? "We haven't established any sort of causality on that, but we can see it in the data," Ferguson said. "Therefore, given their mixing patterns, you would expect to see more children being infected," Barclay said.

Source: bd News24 December 21, 2020 18:22 UTC