{"id":110137,"date":"2021-01-26T00:29:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T00:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=110137"},"modified":"2021-01-26T00:29:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T00:29:43","slug":"matt-hancock-promises-britain-will-help-police-world-for-new-killer-covid-mutations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/matt-hancock-promises-britain-will-help-police-world-for-new-killer-covid-mutations\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Hancock promises Britain will help police world for new killer Covid mutations"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRITAIN will help police the globe for new killer Covid mutations, Matt Hancock will promise.<\/strong><\/p>\n

UK scientific expertise in spotting emerging coronavirus variants will be offered to developing nations to halt future outbreaks from taking hold.<\/p>\n

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Officials claim it will provide a \u201ccrucial early warning\u201d sign of any new Covid strains that might endanger Britain and the world.<\/p>\n

Samples sent in from abroad will be analyses for increased contagiousness, deadliness or vaccine escape.<\/p>\n

And Public Health England teams will even visit countries to carry out gene sequencing, if there is no lab capacity.<\/p>\n

Ministers hope the vital work will help keep the world remain one step ahead of any mutations.<\/p>\n

The offer of international aid will be made by the Health Secretary today as part of a Chatham House speech.<\/p>\n

Mr Hancock will say: \u201cWhen one of us suffers, we all suffer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis pandemic has shown that the foundations of so many of the exciting experiences that make life worth living are contingent not just on our health, or the health of our neighbours, but the health of people we\u2019ve never met.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we must work to promote health security in every single part of the world\u2026 so we\u2019re all better prepared for whatever lies ahead\u201d.<\/p>\n

More than half of all Covid genome sequencing has been carried out in the UK.<\/p>\n

Dr Isabel Oliver, Director of PHE\u2019s National Infection Service, said: \u201cWe know that the virus will evolve over time and certain mutations could potentially cause the virus to spread faster, make people sicker, or possibly affect how well vaccines work.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGenomic testing is crucial to our efforts to control the virus \u2013 it allows us to keep an eye on how the virus is changing and to respond before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis new initiative will bring Public Health England\u2019s cutting edge science to countries that have little or no ability to sequence and analyse COVID-19 virus strains themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will also give us crucial early warning of new variants emerging around the world that might endanger the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n

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