Mutant Covid from UK, Here! By Brian Simpson
Well, with the vaccine rolling of the press, there is news of a new kid on the block, tougher, who may start throwing his/her weight around. We don’t know yet.
“A mutant strain of Covid-19 ravaging the United Kingdom has been detected in a 'couple' of returned overseas travelers to Australia, officials have confirmed.
The variant, which British authorities say is 70 per cent more transmissible than the dominant strain, has led several European nations to close off direct flights from the UK.
Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands have all shut the door, other European countries are expected to swiftly follow suit and London has plunged into a stricter lockdown.
However, Dr Chant stressed the strain wasn't responsible for the Avalon cluster, and did not say whether the two cases had been in the hotel quarantine system.
A different American strain of the virus was responsible for the some 83 cases which have been detected as part of the Sydney northern beaches outbreak.
A sick traveler brought that virus into the country from the United States on December 1 but it remains a mystery how the virus spread from there.”
Not only is the new fella here, but it came, maybe in a suitcase!”
“Sydney's latest Covid-19 outbreak may have come from an Australian who tested positive in hotel quarantine after landing from Los Angeles, New South Wales Health Minister Brad Hazzard revealed.
The woman, who touched down on December 1, was moved from a policed hotel to a health hotel when she tested positive and remains in quarantine.
Genomic sequencing has shown her strain of the disease is extremely similar to the strain ravaging the Northern Beaches.
Mystery surrounds how it got from her into the community but Minster Hazzard speculated a quarantine worker may have caught the disease from her by picking up her bag.
'She is certainly a person that we have got to look more closely at. How could it have possibly got from her to the beaches when she is still in a quarantine hotel?,' he said on ABC News on Monday morning.
'It is a human system. People have to accept this is a human system and if someone picked up a bag by mistake and then put it down, it could be anything that she might have handled.
'It just could be anything at all on that front. We don't know the answer at this point.'
A cluster of cases on the Northern Beaches first emerged on December 16 and has now infected 83 people as of December 21.”
I imagine that we will go through the 2020 cycle, over again, and again, and …
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