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In the UK, the Indian variant is scary. “Possible local lockdowns”

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LONDON – Just as the nightmare begins to fade, with restaurants, cinemas and gyms fully reopening on Monday, an alarm bell rings in the UK. The so-called “Indian variant” that creates similar fears in the rest of the world seems to be the cause of a rise in infections in some parts of the country: the government of Boris Johnson for now it does not intend to change the plans for definitive exit from the lockdown, which start on Monday with the reopening of public places also inside to arrive on June 21 at the end of the restrictive measures, but is planning to increase the pace of vaccinations. New closures will be possible, says a spokesman for Downing Street, but for the moment only at the local or regional level.

One of the areas of greatest concern is Bolton, a town of 140,000 inhabitants near Manchester, where the cases of variant B.1.617.2, as the new variant of Covid of Indian origin has been identified, have radically increased. After a gradual decline from January to mid-April, something has happened that British scientists are still unable to explain: in the city the infections doubled in the last week of April and then doubled again in the first week of May.

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“The increase in cases is happening across all age categories,” she tells Bbc Lynnn Dorkin, Bolton’s deputy director of public health. No one knows how the infection of this variant of the virus began to spread, but the increase in cases in the north-west of England suggests that it is no longer a case of infections brought by travelers from abroad, but now of a transmission to within the community of residents. According to Public Health England, the Indian variant has a transmission aggression at least similar to that of the Kent variant or English variant which is now the most widespread in Europe, but others think it is transmitted more easily and quickly.

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An important point to make: London experts say there is currently no evidence that the Indian variant causes a more serious disease or that it can resist Covid vaccines. The latter is understandably the greatest fear for doctors and scientists: for this purpose, studies are underway in British laboratories to ascertain with absolute certainty how the new variant reacts to the vaccine.

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To prevent any risk, the government is considering the possibility of bringing the second dose of vaccinations earlier than the expected three-month interval. So far nearly 36 million people have received the first dose of one of the available vaccines (Astrazeneca, Pfizer or Moderna) and 15 million also the second dose, making the UK one of the most advanced countries in Europe in the inoculation campaign. There have been 4 and a half million cases and 127,000 deaths, 11 yesterday.

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