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One of the worries with the emergence of new coronavirus variants is how vaccines will fare against them. Reuters have this quick note from Dan Williams on events in Israel.
Israel has registered eight cases of a coronavirus variant first identified in India, and believes that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is at least partially effective against it, an Israeli health official said this morning.
Somewhat lost in the UK yesterday in the furore over the proposed men’s football European Super League, British prime minister Boris Johnson cancelled his much-touted visit to India to help build up post-Brexit trade ties. Following that news, India was placed on the UK’s travel “red list”.
UK education minister Gavin Williamson has this morning been out in the media defending the delay in putting India on the travel “red list” to protect against coronavirus.
