The first detection of the Wuhan pneumonia (novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19) variant in Kent, England, is worrying because it could undermine vaccine protection against Wuhan pneumonia, the head of the UK genetic surveillance program said. Sharon Peacock, head of Public health England’s (PHE) National Infection Service, said, “This variant has swept across the UK and is likely to have a high probability of sweeping the world.
The comprehensive foreign media reports, Wuhan pneumonia has killed 2.35 million people, but also many people can not live a normal Life, and the continuous rumors of new variants of the virus, more worrying people. Peacock said the vaccine has so far been effective against the UK variant of the virus, but the mutation could destroy the vaccine.
“Related to that is that the Wuhan pneumonia UK Variant virus that we’ve been circulating for weeks and months is starting to mutate again, and those mutations could affect the way the vaccine works for the way our immune system processes the virus.” Peacock told the BBC. “What’s more worrying is that the new Variant viruses are more likely to spread. The variant virus that has swept through the UK is now mutating in a way that could make it impossible for people to get protection from the vaccine.”
According to a BBC report in late January, there are three mutated viruses of concern in the UK. The first is a variant of the virus found in Kent last September and is the most widespread variant in England and Northern Ireland, and has been found in more than 50 countries. The second is the South African variant of the virus, and the third is the Brazilian variant.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the number of confirmed cases of Wuhan pneumonia in the UK has exceeded 3.99 million, the fourth highest in the world, and the number of deaths is 115,068, the fifth highest in the world.
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