Coronavirus | Germany puts Britain back on a list of “risk areas”
The Hindu
The presence of B.1.617.2, a variant first detected in India, poses a threat for German authorities.
Germany is putting the Britain back on a list of “risk areas” because of the emergence there of cases of a coronavirus variant first detected in India. Britain currently has a lower rate of coronavirus infections than Germany. But Germany's disease control center, the Robert Koch Institute, says the United Kingdom is going back on the list effective Sunday because of “the at least limited appearance” of the variant known as B.1.617.2.
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