Great Britain is fighting a pandemic. Photo:EPA
The World Daily | News Desk MAY 17th 2021
Among those who are not vaccinated, the Indian coronavirus mutation can spread "like fire," warned UK Health Minister Matt Hancock. At the same time, he confirmed that the third stage of easing restrictions in England scheduled for Monday is valid.
The UK Health Minister has warned that the Indian coronavirus mutation could be spreading faster than the UK variant detected late last year in Kent, which caused a very large spike in winter infections and in some parts of the country, such as Bolton and Blackburn in the North West of England, already became dominant.
"Since this variant can spread even faster than the Kent variant -we saw what happened to it in December- it means that if it gets out of hand, we will have a very, very large number of cases. And even with the protection offered by the vaccine - this protection is very high, but not absolute,” said Matt Hancock in an interview with Sky News on Sunday.
The minister confirmed that the third phase of easing pandemic restrictions in England scheduled for Monday is valid, despite the spread of the Indian mutation, and the decision to move to the fourth will be made on June 14. However, he did not rule out introducing additional local restrictions in places most affected by the Indian variant.
