The new one from SA is apparently a bit nasty - more transmissible as well as possibly less affected by current vaccines.
A couple of rumours - the Belgian bloke was isolating in a hotel and someone else in the hotel caught it, apparently with no contact. Unlikely to be via the air conditioning as the virus droplets are too heavy. So I read.
And someone knows a senior health worker who reckons it's already been identified in Buckinghamshire.
Lastly a fact, Merck have published the full results on their pill, of which we have bought millions. Apparently, while not totally useless, it's efficacy is actually quite a bit lower than their press release (on the back of which governments placed orders) suggested.
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