The country is speeding up screening and vaccination in regions affected by the new strain of the coronavirus in order to control it.
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Correspondent in London
LThe Indian variant could well come to block the efforts of the British government in its roadmap of deconfinement. As of Wednesday, nearly 3,000 cases of this variant had been detected in the country, against 2,300 on Monday, an increase of 28%. To succeed in controlling this new form of the virus, the government has embarked on a race for screening and vaccination. “Mobility data shows how often people move from one region to another, we are looking at them to identify where the virus is likely to spread,” said Matt Hancock, the Minister of Health before the British parliamentarians and at a press conference on the subject. “We are now analyzing wastewater, on 70% of the territory, to spot the virus and its variants and to identify the communities where it is spread. ”
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