From the reports I have read, anyone who has the means is trying to escape from London before the lockdown goes in place.
I understand that Britain does a lot of genomic surveillance of the virus strains in circulation, perhaps more than any other country. This article says that the US does almost none, and presumably does not have a formalized system of regular genomic surveillance. Given Britain's prolific genomic surveillance, it is not really surprising that it should be the first to detect a new mutation. Most other countries are not paying any where near the same attention.
I understand that Britain does a lot of genomic surveillance of the virus strains in circulation, perhaps more than any other country. This article says that the US does almost none, and presumably does not have a formalized system of regular genomic surveillance. Given Britain's prolific genomic surveillance, it is not really surprising that it should be the first to detect a new mutation. Most other countries are not paying any where near the same attention.
We needed a global policy implementing martial law on the grounds of national emergencies as soon as we saw that this virus had penetrated into every major nation on Earth. That would've halted the pandemic, and prevented any further significant mutations like this one. But instead our "leaders" minimized the crisis in order to protect corporate profits, while US citizens railed about their "freedoms" like a bunch of gibbering baboons.That's a good point, I haven't heard much from the US side of things on screening and surveillance of mutated strains of covid, this new strain could be circulating in my country already causing the spikes in new cases...
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