'Triple mutant' Covid variant identified in the UK with 'strange gene combination'
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mirror.co.ukA “triple mutant” Covid variant with a “strange combination” of genes is being probed by UK virologists as England’s R rate worryingly rises to potentially over one.
There have been 49 cases found so far of the new variant mainly in Yorkshire and Humber with people being told not to be alarmed by it.
The mutant form of Covid is a “variant under investigation” but there is no evidence yet to say it is more transmissible or resistant to vaccines.
At the same time, the government has said that the Covid R rate is now somewhere between 0.9 and 1.1 which is the highest it has been since the second wave peak back in January.
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