![]() ![]() It was first designated a variant of interest on March 5 and is common in California. ![]() Variants of interest: Epsilon - B.1.427/B.1.429 Pfizer is 89.5 per cent effective against the strain, at least 14 days after the second dose. ![]() ![]() That was because the strain is significantly more transmissible than the original virus which emerged in Wuhan.Īnd because more people become sick, more people are put in hospital if they catch it.ĭata suggested the strain is 30 to 70 per cent more lethal than the original strain.īut it does not escape antibodies from natural infection or vaccines.Ī trial from the UK found the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine was 70.4 per cent effective against symptomatic Covid-19 caused by the variant. Tests showed the variant first emerged in the UK in Kent in late September.Īt the end of October the strain accounted for only 3 per cent of cases in England.īut by the start of February the share had soared to 96 per cent, causing a third wave across the country. ![]()
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