India has decided to halt flights to and from the UK in response to a new, more infectious coronavirus variant spreading in the UK.
Other European countries such as Germany, France and Italy have already suspended UK flights.
Health officials say the new variant is up to 70% more transmissible but there is no evidence that it is more deadly.
With more than 10 million confirmed cases, India has the second highest caseload after the US.
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A slew of countries closed their borders to Britain on Monday over fears of a highly infectious new coronavirus strain, heightening global panic, causing travel chaos and raising the prospect of UK food shortages days before the Brexit cliff edge.
ReplyDeleteIndia, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Russia, Jordan and Hong Kong suspended travel for Britons after Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that a mutated variant of the virus, up to 70% more transmissible, had been identified in the country. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman closed their borders completely.
Several other nations have suspended travel from Britain including France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Ireland, Belgium, Israel and Canada – although scientists said the strain may already be circulating in countries with less advanced detection methods than the United Kingdom.
The discovery of the new strain, just months before vaccines are expected to be widely available, sowed fresh panic in a pandemic that has killed about 1.7 million people worldwide and more than 67,000 in Britain.
Australia said two people who travelled from the United Kingdom to New South Wales state were found to be carrying the mutated virus.
Australia said on Monday it had detected cases of the new fast-spreading coronavirus strain identified in the United Kingdom, while Hong Kong and India said they would suspend flights from Britain.
ReplyDeleteTwo travellers from the United Kingdom to Australia’s New South Wales state were found carrying the mutated variant of the virus that Britain has said could be up to 70% more infectious. Both are in hotel quarantine, and the recent spike in infections in Sydney is not linked to this, authorities said.
The new strain has prompted Britain’s European neighbours and several others including Canada and Iran to close their doors to travellers from the country.
The United States might decide to ban travel from the United Kingdom where a new variant of the coronavirus has spread, U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir said on Monday, but he added nothing had been decided yet.
ReplyDelete“La vacuna tiene muchas armas. Puede atacar muchas áreas del virus”, dice este experto a Clarín, y aclara que el virus ya sufrió 4.000 mutaciones.
ReplyDeleteEl coronavirus ha tenido 4.000 mutaciones desde su inicio. Pero esta variante detectada en Gran Bretaña debe ser estudiada por los científicos para saber “la funcionalidad que puede haber cambiado” y “hasta donde se ha modificado el “spike” o espina”, que contiene la proteína que entra en contacto con la célula humana. Entonces recién se va a saber cuál será el efecto sobre las vacunas y si deben o no ser modificadas. Una hipótesis que no es difícil científicamente pero es una pesadilla logística. Esta es la interpretación del doctor y profesor Daniel Bausch, médico y virólogo británico, una de las voces más respetadas en estas horas sanitariamente muy difíciles.
DeleteLa funcionalidad del cambio de mutación es lo más importante. Por ejemplo, digamos que tenemos una puerta y vamos a cambiar una cosa de esta puerta. Si la mutación cambia la madera de la puerta, no es muy importante porque la función no ha cambiado mucho. Pero si la mutación cambia donde se pone la llave y puedes hacer que sea más fácil o menos fácil entrar, es un cambio importante. Entonces todavía no sabemos si el cambio, la mutación del virus, cambia la madera o cambia la llave.
DeleteL'Europa in allarme, riunione d'emergenza a Bruxelles. Molti Stati hanno scelto di bloccare i voli per Londra. Chiusa la frontiera francese. I vaccini resterebbero efficaci anche contro la variante del virus
ReplyDeleteEcdc: "La mutazione circola da novembre"...
ReplyDeleteLa variante inglese del coronavirus circola già da un mese. Tre sequenze di campioni raccolti in Danimarca e uno in Australia, prelevati a novembre, sono infatti risultate essere collegate al focolaio inglese causato da questa mutazione.