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'We will not be cut off from Europe'

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Vincent
Date22 December 2020
Published date22 December 2020
Publication titleEvening Chronicle
The Prime Minister said the Government took "prompt and decisive" action when the mutant variant was discovered in the UK on Friday, resulting in the creation of strict Tier 4 restrictions that have taken a scythe to Christmas plans for millions of families.

He said more than half-a-million people in the UK have now received their first dose of the two-part vaccinate since British grandmother Margaret Keenan became the first patient in the world on December 8 to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 jab following its clinical approval.

It came as the Government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats advisory group (NervTag) told a Science Media Centre briefing on the new mutant variant that cases outside of Tier 4 in London and the south east of England "are increasing at similar rates" to those in affected areas, and that it had a "transmission advantage" over other strains of the virus.

However, World Health Organisation director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there was "no evidence" the new strain was "more likely to cause severe disease or mortality".

Elsewhere, regional public health directors in Manchester and the West Midlands urged anyone who travelled from a Tier 4 area or Wales to self-isolate upon their arrival and "assume" they have the new

COVID-19 variant.

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