15-01-2021, 12:15
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Re: Coronavirus
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Covid-19: Brazil variant already in UK, scientist says.
Travellers from South America were banned from entering the UK on Friday.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told the BBC this morning he was "not aware" of any cases of the Brazilian coronavirus variant in the UK.
Asked if the Brazilian strain was currently in the country, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Not as far as we are aware, I think, at this stage."
But Prof Wendy Barclay, who is heading a newly-launched project to study the effects of emerging coronavirus mutations called the G2P-UK National Virology Consortium, said one Brazilian variant of coronavirus had been detected in the UK.
"There are two different types of Brazilian variants and one of them has been detected and one of them has not," she said.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55...ey%20mutations.
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