Netherlands - 'Between 1 and 5 percent corona cases infected with British variant'

[Gert van der Hoek]

RIVM: number of infections with British variant from 11 to 50 people


The number of people in the Netherlands diagnosed with the new British corona variant has risen from 11 to about 50. The RIVM reports.

The new virus has already been diagnosed in about 30 people in the Rotterdam-Rijnmond region, largely linked to an outbreak at a primary school. The British variant was also diagnosed six times in a cluster of infections in the Amsterdam region.

https://www.rivm.nl/nieuws/update-verspreiding-britse-coronavariant-voc-20201201-in-nederland

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

'Between 1 and 5 percent corona cases infected with British variant'

Between 1 and 5 percent of the Dutch who are tested positive are infected with the British variant of the corona virus. This has emerged from research by professor of virology Marion Koopmans, who studied the mutation in the Netherlands.

The variation is most common in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, where about 5 percent of new cases are infected with the British mutation. In England, almost everyone who is infected now has this variant.