People with Covid variant are 50% more likely to infect others - The Times

Contacts of people with the new coronavirus variant are 54 per cent more likely to develop the disease, according to new analysis from Public Health England.

They found, however, that it did not appear likely to cause more severe disease or higher death rates.

Researchers found the “secondary attack rate”, or proportion of contacts of confirmed cases that develop the disease themselves, was 15.1 per cent for people with a confirmed case of the new variant and 9.8 per cent for people confirmed to have another variant.

The figures were published yesterday in a technical report on the variant, now named VOC (variant of concern) 202012/01.

Ministers pointed to the variant’s increased infectiousness when announcing higher Tier 4 restrictions for much of England earlier this

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2020-12-29 17:00:00Z
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