Could new Covid variants derail the UK’s roadmap out of lockdown? – BBC Newsnight

The UK’s Variant and Mutant Taskforce has warned Health Secretary Matt Hancock Covid variants from France, Germany and the US have been imported to the UK. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog

A report from Public Health England, exclusively seen by Newsnight, has warned that Covid variants from abroad – including Ireland, France, Germany and the US – are being imported to the UK.

Could these variants reduce vaccine efficacy?

And how could this affect the UK’s roadmap out of lockdown?

Newsnight’s Policy Editor Lewis Goodall reports.

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