Study: UK Covid variant has higher death rate

LONDON: A highly infectious variant of Covid that has spread around the world since it was first discovered in Britain late last year is between 30% and 100% more deadly than previous dominant variants, researchers said on Wednesday. In a study that compared death rates among people in Britain infected with the new Sars-CoV-2 variant — known as B.1.1.7 — against those infected with other variants of the Covid-19-causing virus.
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