The mutated type of coronavirus was discovered in the UK back in September, but it has become widespread since mid-November. This period of the appearance of the virus was named by the Public Health Service of England, TASS reports.
The department said that the new strain of coronavirus was very rarely infected until mid-September. The increase in the number of cases of morbidity precisely because of the new variant was first revealed at the end of November.
Then the Public Health Service of England studied why infection rates in Kent did not decline, despite the nationwide quarantine. “Later we discovered that this option is spreading rapidly in London and the county of Essex,” – said in the message.
Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Health of Germany, Jens Spahn, said that the coronavirus vaccine would not be less effective for the new SARS-CoV-2 strain, previously discovered in a number of European countries. According to the minister, there is currently no information about the lesser vulnerability of the new coronavirus strain for the drug against COVID-19.
On December 14, UK Health Minister Matthew Hancock announced that a new strain of SARS-CoV-2 has been identified in the country, which is spreading faster than the original form. The virus spreads more easily from person to person and is therefore more contagious, he said. Later, Specialists recalled that a new type of coronavirus is spreading faster than the already known, but it is still impossible to talk about its greater danger. In addition, there is no evidence that the mutation of the virus reacts differently to the vaccine.
