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May 2021
Public Health England monitoring covid variant reported in Yorkshire
Public Health England is monitoring a new variant of covid that has been reported in Yorkshire.
The VUI-21MAY-01 strain has so far had 49 positive cases confirmed, most of them within the Yorkshire and Humber region, and PHE has been monitoring it since April.
PHE said on its website that it had increased testing and that there was “no evidence” that it rendered vaccines less effective.
The government agency said:
It added:
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It comes as public health bosses in North Yorkshire confirmed that cases of the B16172 variant, the so-called Indian variant, had been identified in the county.
According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Louise Wallace, director of public health for North Yorkshire, said the county was still “well prepared” to deal with any variants of concern and that the advice to residents remained the same.
She said:
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