UK monitoring 'subvariant' of coronavirus Delta strain

Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said the government was keeping a "close eye" on the AY.4.2 variant but said there was no evidence it spreads more easily.

Downing Street has acknowledged the rising numbers of positive tests, hospital admissions and deaths, but pointed to fluctuations in all three rates in recent months. "Here we are dealing with a potential small increase in transmissibility that would not have a comparable impact on the pandemic.China reported nine new domestically transmitted Covid-19 cases for yesterday, the highest daily tally since the end of September, with a northern border city enforcing a soft lockdown to contain infections.

The city also closed indoor public venues such as cinemas, internet cafes and gyms, and suspended tourist sites as well as places for religious activities.The city has suspended some tourist sites to carry out disinfection, and require those arriving in the city from outside Shaanxi province to show proof of negative test results within 48 hours before they can visit tourist sites or stay at hotels.

The country also detected 19 new asymptomatic patients, which it classifies separately from confirmed cases. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the opening of borders should act as an "incentive" for residents to get inoculated. Queensland has so far only fully vaccinated 57% of its population above 16, well below the national average of 68%.

Texas has seen nearly 70,000 deaths from the virus, compared with just 1,558 in Australia and none in the remote Northern Territory. On Friday one survey suggested prevalence was at its highest level since January, with 8% of secondary school children infected. Last month, Britain's chief medical officers recommended that children aged 12 to 15 should be offered a Covid-19 vaccine to help reduce disruption to their education.

Dr Brian Ferguson, of the University of Cambridge's Division of Immunology, said that while it was natural there would be a lower take-up in children, he was concerned that not all children who wanted shots in England currently had access to them. Singapore Airlines said flights from Amsterdam, London, Los Angeles and New York were scheduled to arrive today under the programme.

So we're not talking about 'mutation' any more.

More fear please. Thank you 👍

It's overcoming the leaky vaccine, fun times ahead

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Natural selection from infectious pressure x2 vac people will fail to fight due to the discrimination nature of the vac, natural immunity will fight all

A subvariant not a real variant........

Gas isnt it, just as they had to renew their own regulations.

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