Get email updates with the day's biggest stories Invalid Email Something went wrong, please try again later. Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeA “triple mutant” Covid variant with a “strange combination” of genes is being probed by UK virologists as England’s R rate worryingly rises to potentially over one. There have been 49 cases found so far of the new variant mainly in Yorkshire and Humber with people being told not to be alarmed by it. The mutant form of Covid is a “variant under investigation” but there is no evidence yet to say it is more transmissible or resistant to vaccines. But Greg Fell, Sheffield’s director of public health said there is no reason to think the “triple mutant variant” is more transmissible or vaccine resistant.

Source: Daily Mirror May 22, 2021 03:06 UTC