(12-19-2020, 09:46 PM)Dancefortwo Wrote: In the UK Covid 19 seems to have mutated so it transmits faster from person to person. Great. Just what we need.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/eur...story.html
For those without a WaPo subscription:
Quote:[color=var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)]Faced with a newly emerging coronavirus mutation with "significantly faster" transmission rates, Britain on Saturday announced tightened pandemic restrictions that returned London and parts of the country to virtual lockdown and reversed earlier promises for relaxed rules over the holidays.
[color=var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)]The new mutation, or variant, was first detected in southeast England in September and is quickly becoming the dominant strain in London and other parts of the country. But experts said it does not appear more deadly or resistant to vaccines.[/color]
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[color=var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)]At a news conference from 10 Downing Street, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the new variant “may be up to 70 percent more transmissible.”
[color=var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)]“This is spreading very fast,” he said, announcing international travel bans and other measures for about 18 million people in England beginning Sunday. Wales and Scotland followed with their own tightened restrictions and travel bans.[/color]
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I have no idea why the stuff in parentheses is there. It just popped into the copy/paste somehow.
If you click "preview post" first, you can edit that stuff out and get a straight quote. You can also change your settings and get all copy-paste to present in source code, to avoid that extra step every single time.
On hiatus.
