warned that the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa is a "very significant problem" and poses more of a risk than others.
Matt Hancock told BBC radio that he’s "incredibly worried" about the new variant as others questioned whether currently approved vaccines would be effective against it."I’m incredibly worried about the South African variant," Hancock told BBC Radio 4’s Today. "That’s why we took the action that we did to restrict all flights from South Africa, and movement from South Africa, and to insist that anybody who’s been to South Africa self isolates.
This is a very, very significant problem."South African researchers are already working to determine whether the vaccines developed to combat COVID-19 will see the.