Evening Edition: A Mutated COVID-19 Strain Causes Concerns In The U.K.

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🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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A mutated strain of COVID-19 has swept across southern England and scientists say it is up to seventy percent more transmissible than the original. Other European countries that have also detected the strain, including Denmark, Belgium and Italy, have halted all travel from the United Kingdom. FOX’s Trey Yingst speaks with Yonat Friling, Senior Fox News Field Producer, on the latest from around the globe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.1	Monday, December 21st, 2020. I'm Trey Yinks. A new strain of coronavirus in the United Kingdom
0:29.6	is leading to flights being cancelled and new containment efforts being taken.
0:34.0	It is a variant from the original COVID-19 and the mutation is 70% more contagious. This is the Fox News rundown, evening edition.
0:49.4	Scientists in the United Kingdom say a mutated coronavirus strain is spreading rapidly among the population.
0:56.0	The Netherlands, Belgium, and Austria, among others, halted flights from the UK
1:01.0	as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there is no evidence
1:04.3	suggesting the new strain is more lethal. Worldwide vaccine campaigns are underway this week
1:08.9	to slow the spread of the disease. In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got his shot on
1:14.3	Saturday evening before the country started to roll out a campaign for frontline
1:18.3	workers and those over 60. For the latest on this story and others you may have
1:22.2	missed over the past week, this is
1:24.0	you're not Freeling, a senior Fox News field producer.
1:27.0	Scientists have found a new strain of the COVID-19, it's called B-117,
1:32.0	and it seems to be the strain that responsible for the high spike of numbers of cases in the UK, probably here in Israel as well.
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