Mutant coronavirus was known in September. PM asleep at the wheel.
A report conducted on behalf of the COVID-19 Genomics Consortium UK (CoG-UK), makes it clear that the coronavirus (Covid-19) mutation was first identified in September. Over 60% of cases The CoG-UK report, published on 18 December 2020, says that: the two earliest sampled genomes that belong to the B.1.1.7 lineage [the name of the variant] were collected on 20-Sept-2020 in Kent and another on 21-Sept-2020 from Greater London. By mid-November, it was found that about 26% of coronavirus cases had originated from the new strain. By the week commencing 9 December, in London alone that figure rose to over 60%, the government’s chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance claimed.…