Covid-19 pandemic: New variant is 'most significant' seen to date
A new highly-transmissible variant found in South Africa prompts the UK to ban flights.
One scientist told me this was the worst variant they'd seen - look at it on paper and it's not hard to see why.
It is the most heavily mutated variant so far and is now radically different to the f… [+389 chars]
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