New coronavirus variants: What are they and how worried should we be?

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GuyтАЩs Hospital in London. UK health services are at risk of being overrun

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Since the start of the pandemic, there have been concerns that the┬аcoronavirus could evolve to become more dangerous. Now, hospitals in the UK are at risk of being overwhelmed by surging numbers of covid-19 cases and there is growing evidence that this is partly due to a new variant of the virus that spreads more readily. This variant has already reached many other countries.

Hospitals in South Africa are┬аalso being overrun, due to a┬аresurgence of covid-19 being blamed on another тАж

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