Italy and Australia announce new lockdowns; France death toll surpasses 60,000; Sweden introduces tough new measures
- New strain in south-east England prompts fears of third lockdown
- Covid cases in India reach 10m as country plans vaccination programme
- Italy to go into Covid lockdown over festive period
- Mike Pence receives Covid-19 vaccine on live TV: ‘I didn’t feel a thing’
- Unions say mass testing of England’s pupils ‘undeliverable’
Professor Chris Whitty, chief medical officer for England, said the UK has informed the World Health Organisation that the new variant coronavirus can spread more rapidly.
“As announced on Monday, the UK has identified a new variant of Covid-19 through Public Health England’s genomic surveillance,” he said in a statement.
Boris Johnson will hold a press conference later today amid rising cases in England and a new coronavirus strain spreading rapidly across the south-east.
The government’s chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, and chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, will also appear.
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