British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that there is “evidence” that the variant identified in the United Kingdom of the Covid-19 coronavirus “is associated with a higher level of mortality”, in addition to being more contagious.
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Johnson explained in a press conference that, due to the impact of this new variant, the public health system (NHS) is “under greater pressure”, although he added that the vaccines that are being administered in the country are effective against both strains in the opinion of scientists. “As well as spreading faster, there now also appears to be evidence that the new variant may be associated with a higher degree of mortality,” Johnson said, as reported by the BBC.
Currently, the variant, which has spread to more than 50 countries, is the version of the dominant virus in the United Kingdom, which has suffered a strong spike in infections attributed precisely to this circumstance.
The British Ministry of Health has updated this Friday the balance of the Covid-19 pandemic with more than 40,000 additional cases of coronavirus, a threshold that the United Kingdom has not exceeded for six days and that has brought about 1,400 more deaths derived from this disease , associated with the SARS-COV-2 virus.
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