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Singapore and Denmark confirm cases of new COVID-19 variant strain spreading rapidly in the United Kingdom
ABC Australia ^ | 12/24/2020

Posted on 12/24/2020 7:21:01 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Singapore and Denmark have confirmed their first cases of the new coronavirus variant found spreading rapidly in parts of the United Kingdom.

Singapore has confirmed one case, while 11 others in quarantine have returned preliminarily positive results.

Denmark has identified 33 infections with the new strain.

"There is currently no evidence that the B117 strain is circulating in the community," Singapore's health ministry said late on Wednesday, referring to the new, potentially more infectious UK strain.

Singapore has been conducting viral genomic sequencing for confirmed COVID-19 cases who arrived from Europe recently.

The patient with the new variant came to Singapore from the UK on December 6, had been quarantined on arrival and tested positive on December 8.

All her close contacts had been placed on quarantine, and had tested negative at the end of their quarantine period.

Meanwhile, The State Serum Institute (SSI), Denmark's infectious disease authority, said 33 cases had been found in COVID-19 tests carried out between November 14 and December 14.

Denmark has so far analysed genetic material from 7,805 positive tests in that period, meaning the variant was found in about 0.4 per cent of the infections.

"The latest sequencing results indicate that there is societal infection in Denmark with the new English virus variant, albeit at a very low level," the SSI said.

Preliminary information did not suggest the 33 people who contracted the variant had any connection to England or had been travelling in other countries, the SSI said.

More than 40 countries, including Denmark and Singapore, have suspended travel with the United Kingdom, where the new variant of the virus — thought to be more transmissible than others circulating — has spread quickly in southern England, including London.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: covid19; denmark; mutation; singapore

1 posted on 12/24/2020 7:21:01 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Anybody want to bet that if this really exists and isn’t another level of propaganda, that the globalists have pushed this out of their lab, wherever it is and are spreading it around?


2 posted on 12/24/2020 7:25:13 PM PST by curious7
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To: SeekAndFind
UK has a heavy Muzzie population.

Is this really a variant of MERS that was brought into the UK?

3 posted on 12/24/2020 7:29:04 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: SeekAndFind

A new and improved timed release.


4 posted on 12/24/2020 7:35:45 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: Cold Heart

This was a given.


5 posted on 12/24/2020 7:51:56 PM PST by frogjerk
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To: frogjerk

Anything to keep this going to get populations thoroughly used to to the Total State.


6 posted on 12/24/2020 8:05:40 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe hbbb)
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To: SeekAndFind

Snore. Same old bullshit scare garbage about a FLU BRO!


7 posted on 12/24/2020 8:20:08 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again )
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To: SeekAndFind

Any evidence that COVID 1.1 is any more lethal than COVID 1.0?


8 posted on 12/24/2020 8:28:48 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adical Islam, )
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To: SeekAndFind

We are all going to die, just not today
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=htrD3Tsh7GE

Boom...


9 posted on 12/24/2020 8:32:03 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: SeekAndFind

Here is a hypothesis the mask ninnies won’t like.

By obsessively attempting to avoid the virus thru lockdowns and masks, the result is the natural selection of viral strains that more adept at spreading.

If instead of becoming hysterical over Covid, we had instead treated it as another flu, which it is, we would have already achieved natural herd immunity to the original strain, which would provide protection against close variants.


10 posted on 12/24/2020 8:32:27 PM PST by Flick Lives (#resist)
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To: SeekAndFind

Here we go again.


11 posted on 12/24/2020 8:51:52 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Flick Lives

Well, Evolution and adaption would be Real Science, right?

Nice logic.


12 posted on 12/24/2020 8:52:41 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: SeekAndFind

No mention of the dead, ABC puke fest


13 posted on 12/25/2020 5:20:01 AM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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