MANHUNT—Britain 🇬🇧 appealed for a mystery individual infected with a highly transmissible #P1 🇧🇷 variant of #SARSCoV2 to come forward, more than two weeks after tested positive but failed to give proper contact details. Contact tracing is key!🧵 #COVID19
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2) Britain said six cases had been detected of the “P.1” variant identified in the Brazilian city of Manaus, against which current vaccines appear to be less effective. Two were in South Gloucestershire in England and three in Scotland....
3) But a sixth individual in England, one of more than a million people tested on Feb. 12-13, had yet to be identified.
4) “If you’ve had a test on the 12th or 13th of February, (and) haven’t had your results back, please get in touch,” vaccination minister Nadhim Zahawi told Times Radio. “We are working with the postal system to try and locate them.”
5) The P.1 variant shares significant mutations with a variant first detected in South Africa known as B.1.351, which has raised similar concerns.
6) “Adam Finn told the BBC: “The evidence we have suggests that certainly the South African variant & potentially this Brazilian variant, which is somewhat similar - the vaccines we have at the moment are less effective at reducing at least mild disease and possibly transmission.
7) “One of the cases in the household in South Gloucestershire had flown from Brazil via Zurich to London, arriving on Feb. 10. All three 🏴 cases were identified as people who had flown from Brazil to Aberdeen via Paris and London and had self-isolated for the required 10 days.
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