New CCP Virus Strain Is ‘Worst News’ of Pandemic, Says Government Scientist

This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (round blue objects), also known as CCP virus, the virus that causes COVID-19, emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab that were isolated from a patient in the United States. NIAID-RML via Reuters

The emergence of a new strain of the CCP virus in southeast England is the “worst news” of the pandemic that has ravaged Britain and the rest of the world since March, a UK Government scientist has said.

“If the vaccine is the best news, this is the worst news we’ve had so far,” Professor Andrew Hayward, director of the Institute of Epidemiology and Healthcare at University College London (UCL) told Sky News on Monday.