President of the Epidemiology and Public Health section of the Royal Society of Medicine Dr Gabriel Scally has said there is real concern that if a new strain of Covid-19 discovered in mink in Denmark becomes dominant then a lot of the work done to date with vaccines will be "for nothing" and their effectiveness will be reduced.
Dr Scally said he personally believes that travel to and from Denmark should be restricted until the outbreak is completely under control and there needs to be some sort of managed isolation system introduced in the UK and Ireland because the self-isolation is not working well.
He said he has not seen evidence that the new strain is a more vicious version of the coronavirus but its potential knock-on effect on