Thread by @RickFandango

1 - #MATTHANCOCK CHALLENGED OVER ‘MUTANT #STRAIN'

timeforrecovery.org/mutantstrain/

2 - 'Professor Nick Loman of the Covid-19 Genomics UK (COG UK) consortium, identified the new set of #mutation as VUI – 202012/0. He confirmed that it is not new, as COG UK identified it in September, and there is no proof that it is more infectious'

timeforrecovery.org/mutantstrain/

3 - 'Dr Maria van Kerkhove, the technical lead of #COVID19 response and the head of emerging diseases and zoonosis unit at #WHO, has also confirmed that the #strain involved has been circulating for many months'

timeforrecovery.org/mutantstrain/

4 - Over 20000 variants have been reported'.....'Any #variant of might expand swiftly because it gets into a part of the country which has had a relatively low prior exposure to #SARSCoV2

timeforrecovery.org/mutantstrain/

5 - “The evidence suggests that #MattHancock may have needlessly terrified millions of people by giving misleading information about a #variant of the #virus which has existed for months"

timeforrecovery.org/mutantstrain/

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