new coronavirus strain sweeping Britain has been in Germany since November, health officials said Tuesday, after detecting the variant in a patient who died in the north of the country.Researchers were "able to sequence the variant of the B1.1.7 virus in a person infected in November this year", the health ministry of Lower Saxony said in a statement referring to the new strain.Also Read | How Indians lived online during 2020This is the same strain "responsible for a large proportion of the infections detected in the south of England," it said.The variant was found in an elderly patient with underlying health conditions who has since died.