Fancy an escape? Sign up to the Chill newsletter for weekly inspiration and advice on UK holidays The Indian strain of Covid-19 may resist vaccines and "scupper the UK's escape plan" out of lockdown, according to a top scientist.
This comes after 77 cases of the B.1.617 variant, first discovered in India, were found in the UK. Professor Danny Altmann, a professor of immunology at Imperial College London, says he "suspected" the Indian Covid strain would be escalated to a "variant of concern" as it could be evasive to any of our vaccines.He told BBC Radio 4: "I think we should be terribly concerned about it."They (variants of concern) are things that can most scupper our escape plan at the moment and give us a third wave.
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