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UK COVID Mutation Sparks Vaccine Concern, Travel Bans from Several Nations: ‘Right Now This Variant is on a Plane and Flying to JFK’

December 21, 2020 by Andy Towle Leave a Comment

Travel has been halted from the United Kingdom from several countries after a mutant variation of the coronavirus that is highly transmissible sparked a new lockdown in London.

The AP reports: “France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Ireland and Bulgaria all announced restrictions on U.K. travel, hours after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that Christmas shopping and gatherings in southern England must be canceled because of rapidly spreading infections blamed on the new coronavirus variant.”

Italy, however, has already identified the strain in a traveler from the UK: “The patient and his partner returned from the United Kingdom in the last few days with a flight that landed at Rome’s Fiumicino airport and were now in isolation, the ministry said.”

The NY Post adds: “Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday called it “reprehensible” and ‘grossly negligent’ to allow UK travelers to fly into JFK Airport without being tested despite a contagious new mutation of the coronavirus shutting down London. ‘Right now, this variant in the UK is getting on a plane and flying to JFK,’ Cuomo said in a call to reporters Sunday of the mutation UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned could be 70 percent more transmittable.”

.@DrLeanaWen says we could consider a quarantine rather than a UK travel ban over new COVID variant.

"I would just add too that right now the U.S. is *the* viral hot spot in the world, and so for us to be imposing a travel ban from somewhere else would raise a lot of eyebrows." pic.twitter.com/SXjJlskLgv

— The Recount (@therecount) December 21, 2020

U.S. Army scientists are studying the mutant variation of the coronavirus to see if the new vaccines are effective against the mutation.

CNN reports: “While there’s always a worry that a vaccine won’t work if a virus mutates significantly, the Walter Reed scientists still expect the vaccine will be effective against this new variant, said Dr. Nelson Michael, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. … On Thursday, the Walter Reed team started examining genetic sequences of the new UK variant posted onlineby British researchers.”

Filed Under: Covid-19, Featured Tagged With: coronavirus, Covid-19, Health, London, New York City, United Kingdom

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