In Great Britain, the new, much more contagious coronavirus variant has already established itself in all parts of the country, and it has also arrived in Austria and other EU countries. Slovakia is said to be particularly hard hit. According to a report by Kronen newspaper Currently more than 50 percent of the newly infected carry the modified variant of the virus.
According to the report, the Slovak Ministry of Health has alerted the Austrian authorities to this development. There was initially no official statement from Vienna.
Mutation in several regions
At the weekend, the Slovak Ministry of Health confirmed that the British virus variant had been discovered in the capital Bratislava and several counties, such as Nitra. It will not be possible to limit their spread to individual areas, it said.
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