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Britain labels coronavirus ‘variant of concern’ linked to travel from India

Public Health England designated variant B.1.617.2, one of three variants identified in India that has spread to Britain, a variant of concern. Surge testing was being carried out in areas where evidence indicates community spread. Cases of the B.1.617.2 variant increased to 520 from 202 over the last week, PHE said, mainly in London and… Read More »

Britain records 17 more coronavirus deaths in preliminary toll

Department of Health WITHDRAWS official UK Coronavirus daily death toll of 114 after it emerges nobody in England is ever counted as cured Department of Health figures show 82 Britons are now succumbing to the life-threatening infection each day The seven-day average was 74 last Friday. More than 1,000 people died each day during the peak… Read More »