New CCP Virus Mutation Spreads in UK, Here Is What We Know

Travellers walk through the St. Pancras International train station in London in the U.K. on Dec. 21, 2020, as EU countries impose a travel ban from the U.K. following the COVID-19 outbreak. Hannah McKay/Reuters

A growing list of countries have imposed travel restrictions on the UK where a mutation of the CCP virus has been detected. The new variant is more transmittable, and may further evolve as it spreads.

The variant, named “VUI – 202012/01”(the first Variant Under Investigation in December 2020) or “B.1.1.7 lineage” by British scientists, was first identified in mid-September following an increase of COVID-19 cases in Kent and London.