In fact, a study made by researchers on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) in the U.K. has shown that the new U.K. variant is somewhere between 30 percent and 70 percent more transmissible than the other strains, including the original one.
According to Peacock, “What’s really affected us at the moment is transmissibility.” The fact that the variant is more transmissible than the original strain has brought a lot of stress on the U.K. medical system in the past few months, she added.
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