Growing Fears That The UK Covid Variant Is Mutating Into An Even More Dangerous Strain

Daily Mail: Fears as Kent Covid strain mutates AGAIN: Scientists warn 'worrying' development sees widespread variant mimic South African one that could be more immune to vaccines

* Public Health England has found at least 11 cases of coronavirus where the variant had an extra mutation

* This mutation, known to scientists as E484K, appears to make previous immunity to Covid less effective

* Scientists say it is 'inevitable' that the coronavirus will continue to mutate this way and it can only be slowed

The Kent Covid variant has started to mutate further to become more like the one that evolved in South Africa in what scientists have dubbed a 'worrying development' that could make vaccines less effective.

One of the key mutations on the South African and Brazilian variants appear to make the virus more able to resist immunity that has been developed by past infection or from the current vaccines.

And this mutation has now been found at least 11 times in different cases of people infected with the Kent variant, Public Health England revealed, raising fears it could become a permanent feature of the British strain.

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