The virulence of the CCP virus variant that first emerged in England last year and triggered the country’s current third full national lockdown has been re-estimated and found to be lower than originally thought, according to experts.
Raghib Ali, Senior Researcher at the University of Cambridge MRC Epidemiology Unit, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday that findings (pdf) from a Public Health England (PHE) investigation show the variant is just 30 to 50 percent more transmissible than the original strain, rather than the previously estimated 50 to 70 percent.
