Future coronavirus variants may be able to bypass current vaccines, Sir Patrick Vallance says

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direct to your inboxFuture variants of coronavirus could bypass the current batch of vaccines, England's chief scientific adviser has warned.Sir Patrick Vallance joined Boris Johnson and Prof Chris Whitty at a press conference at Downing Street today.Asked how the government plans to tackle new strains of the virus in future, Sir Patrick said it was possible that some could 'get round' current vaccines.But he added that existing vaccines were 'quite easy' to adjust to any changes.Sir Patrick said: "In terms of other variants, it is possible that [they] will get round vaccines to some extent in the future, and some of them that are out there in the world now may well have more of an effect to bypass some of the existing immune system that’s.