There have been concerns vaccines may not be as effective against the variant, but NHS England's Prof Stephen Powis said vaccines could be "rapidly adapted".
Two other people in the same household have also since tested positive for Covid - but tests are still ongoing to check if it is the same variant, so they are not included in the overall UK total of six.Testing is being ramped up in South Gloucestershire - on the outskirts of Bristol - with people living in five postcode areas invited to get tested even if they do not have symptoms.
Officials are asking anyone who took a test on 12 or 13 February and who has not received a result or has an uncompleted test registration card to come forward immediately by calling 119. The coronavirus jabs being given to people now were designed around earlier versions of the pandemic virus, not these new variants.Work is already under way to redesign or tweak the vaccines to make them a better match for some of these new "variants of concern".
Holyrood said the three people had tested positive while self-isolating. Other passengers who were on the same flight from London to Aberdeen are now being contacted.
That people still believe this utter bullshit is beyond me...ITS A SCAM PEOPLE
Oh no.. Test and trace failed..quickly.. Give Boris and his crony mates another 23 billion £ for a new test and trace system
Utter incompetence from this government putting everything we've worked so hard for (despite government's best efforts to f it up) at risk. If this takes hold in the UK Johnson has to go. Sage warned him
BBCPolitics If they purposely skipped it should go to prison set an example
If we are hearing about this now it means that it's too late & it's already in & spreading as we speak like Yvette Cooper predicted. Incompetence on a global scale. This is the chickens coming home to roost from all of the lies &truth twisting. Criminal failure of leadership.
Should hunt for a decent politician instead!
'Officials hunt Brazil virus variant case' They'll be hunting healthy people with weapons soon and sending them to camps. Many will think it's perfectly normal Media scaremongering on variants when virus mutation is normal, will result in setting the public against the 'unclean'
The variant does NOT escape vaccination. Why are you so set on terrifying people?
The fact that the vaccine minister looks and sounds like a dead man walking, and is putting out a direct appeal to the public to locate a needle in a haystack warehouse full of haystacks and needles should worry us all.
This weekend they lost control of the fear tactics. People went out, mixed, enjoyed the sun and had a good time. They are quickly trying to re establish control with fear. Ignore them.
It’d be great if there were somehow an effective way to track - and possibly even trace - this.
Surely if they’ve identified this via testing then they’ll have the name and address of those who tested positive?
This is on the UK government. Their fuck up. The borders have been deliberately left open for nearly a year.
piersmorgan ”5 days before the governments hotel quarantine system came into force”. That would presumably be the system (which should have been done a year ago) announced about 3 weeks earlier but implementation of which was delayed for no apparent reason
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
We’re living under the strictest lockdown measures in the developed world but our borders are still open.
How can someone did not complete their test registration card? How can this be allowed/permitted?
Not surprised, we live on a island how hard was it to close borders a year ago, now look, hope the government are happy the misery it's causing
So this is the new normal then? Trying to track down INDIVIDUAL suspected cases? We are never going to get to ZERO covid. Why can’t government accept that? And as for the £12+ Billion spent on Test and Trace. That was money well spent wasn’t it 🙄
20000 fly into Tory uk every day
good
I owe you an apology to ever doubt your sincerity and professionalism. It’s was just like a dream to me when I received my first payment. After my second payment it became a reality now after several payments it has become a way of life. SamuelEddy_
The state of this article to induce dear when there is nothing. Tavistock Institute at its finest.
The Brazilian variant has been found in many countries around the world. Several nations in Europe and Asia so not just the UK.
IF THEY SHUT THE ****ING DOOR,LIKE EVERY SANE PERSON WOULD DO,LAST ****NG YEAR,WE WOULDNT HAVE BRAZILIAN OR SOUTH AFRICAN VARIANT. WHAT A UTTER AND TOTAL SHAMBLES,THAT HAVE KILLED 100'S OF THOUSANDS,ITS LIKE A WAR CRIME,MINUS THE GUILTY FEW!!!
This one hides in your earhole according to that image.
If the systems that we’ve subsidized the Tory donors with, worked...we wouldn’t have to ‘hunt’ anybody because we’d know how to track n trace n isolate, right ?
What about the quarantine 🙄
Bill Gates on Co2 & Depopulation at TED Talk 2010
Great..... this is one case admitted to, how many others. The only country that puts its population on lockdown and readily imports the virus through travellers
Perspective...
Lock citizens in their houses, open the borders and import the virus, makes sense right?
Josef Goebbels
Another win for Serco Test n’ Trace!
Probably down our park today with the other 500 people.
Hey jairbolsonaro care to help out? After all its all your fault 🤡👹💩☠️🤬
Thoth. the brit.
nice
Thoth beats ur ass like ur a child.