The variant of the virus which causes Covid-19 is ‘highly infectious’, Devi Sridhar said.
An academic has called for the Covid-19 vaccination programme to be rolled out more widely
The vaccine programme for this winter is due to begin next week in England, after being brought forward due to fears over a new variant. “But I would say that early studies are showing that it is not more severe in terms of its health impact, and also that it’s not having a higher hospitalisation rate, and those are the two things that we’re watching carefully in terms of future variants.
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