FILE PHOTO: A health care worker gives a coronavirus test at a COVID drive-thru testing center at Bergen Community College, as the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease continues, in Paramus, New Jersey, U.S., December 3, 2020.
The variant, known as B117, is believed to be twice as transmissible as the current version of the virus circulating in the United States.Its rapid spread will increase the burden on health resources at a time when infections are surging, further sapping strained healthcare resources and increasing the need for better adherence to mitigation strategies, such as social-distancing and mask-wearing, the CDC said in its weekly report on death and disease.
It also increases the percentage of the population that needs to be vaccinated to achieve protective herd immunity to control the pandemic, the CDC said.
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