Cases show same mutation in both original and Kent strains as South African incarnation
Community Covid testing is to be expanded in two more cities to stem the spread of the South African variant of the coronavirus, as it emerged that the Kent variant was developing some of the same mutations.
In a sequence of events illustrating the ever-changing battle faced by ministers in curbing the spread of variants that could be more resistant to vaccines, Matt Hancock used a Commons statement to announce the expansion of efforts to combat a South African strain of coronavirus, feared to be more resistant to existing vaccines.
