Re: India variant
Posted: May 13th, 2021, 5:09 pm
From the BBC News Website today at 16:58
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-57069295
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-57069295
Professor Robert Dingwall, who is a member of the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group, said that while the Indian variant may be capable of becoming the dominant variant in the UK, the risk of a surge in deaths or hospital admissions remains low.
Prof Dingwall, of the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University, told the PA news agency: "This variant seems to be better managed by the vaccines than the South African variant so that vaccinated people have only a very low risk of infection that is likely to be mild."