Intian variantti on brittivarianttiakin tarttuvampi ja Briteissä ovat paikoin alkaneet tartuntamäärät nousta

Ja vähän samaa on ehkä huomattavissa meilläkin. Se lienee vaarallinen ainakin rokottamattomille ja meilläkin jopa vallitseva muunnos hetken päästä.

Studies suggest the variant — first detected in Britain in February — may be 60 per cent more transmissible than the highly infectious Kent version (B.1.1.7) that triggered the UK's raging second wave. But experts have no reason to believe it evades vaccines and reports from India suggest it still protects against severe illness.

Professor James Naismith, a biologist at Oxford University, claimed the strain will eventually 'get everywhere' as the Kent variant did when it emerged in the South East last autumn. He told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme: 'I think we should view it as a country-wide problem. It will get everywhere.