Prime minister downplays threat from ‘variant of concern’ and says lifting of restrictions unlikely to be delayed
Boris Johnson has denied hotel quarantine was brought in too slowly, as a nationwide search to track down a person infected with a coronavirus “variant of concern” that originated in Brazil gets under way.
The prime minister said scientific advisers “don’t think that there is a threat to the wider public” from the unidentified case and added a “massive effort” is going into preventing the variant spreading.
