It is "absolutely vital" that people in areas of England where the South African variant of coronavirus has been identified minimise all social contact, the health secretary has said.
The government has announced that coronavirus testers will go door-to-door across a number of areas of England to swab 80,000 people in an attempt to halt the spread of the strain.
The emergence of the variant was a "stark reminder the fight against this virus is not over yet" and that now was "no time to let things slip", Mr Hancock said.
"There is currently no evidence to suggest this variant is any more severe. But we need to come down hard on it and we will."
It isn't more severe but we need more severe measures to deal with it more severely than that strains which are just as severe. Right...
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We never hear of anybody who has both, or even all three, variants simultaneously.
Obviously then having one prevents you from catching the other.
So maybe as happened with Cow Pox being used as a vaccine against deadly Small Pox we should encourage carriers of a harmless Covonavirus to breath on everyone. Perhaps in vaccination centres. No need for cryogenic magic.
And just to maintain financial equilibrium the gubmint could pay them large fortunes.
We already have an apartheid strain which unfairly discriminates against non-whites.
Mutations are normal and expected - this suggests Mad Hancock is now grasping at straws to keep the panic level high.
But I'm confused: wasn't 'the plan' to inject everyone with whatever-it-is, then the bugs would vanish? A few weeks have passed since jabbing began, so why hasn't the naughty virus gone away yet?
Doonhamer - good idea. I wonder if people never get the common cold and the coronavirus at the same time. If so we need to catch colds and throw away all those masks so we can spread it around with lots of coughing and sneezing. We also need to crowd together in pubs and cafes.
Sam - yes, I'm surprised the virus hasn't been ticked off about that. It is interesting though, as if we are more subtly adapted to our latitude than we might think. The possible role of vitamin D is interesting too.
Ed - that's a good question. It's almost as if they are rushing the vaccinations to beat an expected seasonal fall in infection rates as we leave winter behind. They will claim it's the vaccinations of course.
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