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Covid-19 UK Strain more transmissible than Delta
Jul 5^th, 2021 at 7:25pm

https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/covid19-uk-strain-more-transmis...

Covid-19 UK: Strain more transmissible than Delta hits UK

A worrying new strain of Covid-19 that is more transmissible than Delta
has been found in the community in the UK.

Mitchell Van Homrigh
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July 5, 20213:46pm

It is a worrying sign for the UK which has recently relaxed Covid-19 restrictions after 37 million people received at least one dose of a vaccine.

The country had returned to normality in recent weeks with pubs flooded by revellers enjoying their country’s recent success at Euro 2020.

However, these civil liberties could change if the highly transmissible Lambda strain spreads across the community.

Cayetano Heredia University Professor Pablo Tsukayama said the strand has exploded in Peru with the new variant currently making up 82 per cent of cases in the South American country.

“That would suggest its rate of transmission is higher than any other variant,” he said.

His claims were backed up by a report from London’s Covid-19 Genomics Initiative at the Welcome Sanger Institute director Jeff Barrett.

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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 111572 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Covid-19 UK Strain more transmissible than Delta Reply #1 - Jul 5^th, 2021 at 10:07pm It's the horror Lambda strain. Rumor: the lambda strain is more infectious than every other strain and is vaccine resistant
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Carl D Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9967 Rivervale, Perth Gender:	Re: Covid-19 UK Strain more transmissible than Delta Reply #2 - Jul 5^th, 2021 at 10:52pm So, as long as this Lambda strain doesn't get into Australia we should be OK, right? Oh, wait... look what happened with Delta and all the other Covid strains. Oops. Stand by for Lambda, coming soon to an airport near you. Closely followed by the rest of the Greek alphabet, no doubt.
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Re: Covid-19 UK Strain more transmissible than Delta
Reply #3 - Jul 5^th, 2021 at 10:59pm

Carl D wrote on Jul 5^th, 2021 at 10:52pm:

So, as long as this Lambda strain doesn't get into Australia we should be OK, right?

Oh, wait... look what happened with Delta and all the other Covid strains. Oops.

Stand by for Lambda, coming soon to an airport near you. Closely followed by the rest of the Greek alphabet, no doubt.

Sooner or later we'll get a variant that is
completely resistant to any of the vaccines.

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Ajax Gold Member Offline CO2 has never controlled temperature on Earth Posts: 11000 Australia Gender:	Re: Covid-19 UK Strain more transmissible than Delta Reply #4 - Jul 5^th, 2021 at 11:10pm The question is how deadly is it.....??? Historically when a virus mutates it becomes weaker.
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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 111572 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Covid-19 UK Strain more transmissible than Delta Reply #5 - Jul 5^th, 2021 at 11:14pm Ajax wrote on Jul 5^th, 2021 at 11:10pm: The question is how deadly is it.....??? Historically when a virus mutates it becomes weaker. I bloody hope so. I want this Covid nightmare over ASAP.
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Re: Covid-19 UK Strain more transmissible than Delta
Reply #6 - Jul 5^th, 2021 at 11:14pm

Bobby. wrote on Jul 5^th, 2021 at 10:59pm:

Carl D wrote on Jul 5^th, 2021 at 10:52pm:

So, as long as this Lambda strain doesn't get into Australia we should be OK, right?

Oh, wait... look what happened with Delta and all the other Covid strains. Oops.

Stand by for Lambda, coming soon to an airport near you. Closely followed by the rest of the Greek alphabet, no doubt.

Sooner or later we'll get a variant that is
completely resistant to any of the vaccines.

The virus is already resistant to the Sinovaccine.

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Re: Covid-19 UK Strain more transmissible than Delta
Reply #7 - Jul 6^th, 2021 at 7:48am

rhino wrote on Jul 5^th, 2021 at 11:14pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jul 5^th, 2021 at 10:59pm:

Carl D wrote on Jul 5^th, 2021 at 10:52pm:

So, as long as this Lambda strain doesn't get into Australia we should be OK, right?

Oh, wait... look what happened with Delta and all the other Covid strains. Oops.

Stand by for Lambda, coming soon to an airport near you. Closely followed by the rest of the Greek alphabet, no doubt.

Sooner or later we'll get a variant that is
completely resistant to any of the vaccines.

The virus is already resistant to the Sinovaccine.

Yes - so I heard.

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Re: Covid-19 UK Strain more transmissible than Delta
Reply #8 - Jul 6^th, 2021 at 8:35am

Carl D wrote on Jul 5^th, 2021 at 10:52pm:

So, as long as this Lambda strain doesn't get into Australia we should be OK, right?

Oh, wait... look what happened with Delta and all the other Covid strains. Oops.

Stand by for Lambda, coming soon to an airport near you. Closely followed by the rest of the Greek alphabet, no doubt.

It's already in at least 30 countries.

Scotty from Marketing will make sure we get it too.

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Re: Covid-19 UK Strain more transmissible than Delta
Reply #9 - Jul 6^th, 2021 at 10:18am

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 6^th, 2021 at 8:35am:

Carl D wrote on Jul 5^th, 2021 at 10:52pm:

So, as long as this Lambda strain doesn't get into Australia we should be OK, right?

Oh, wait... look what happened with Delta and all the other Covid strains. Oops.

Stand by for Lambda, coming soon to an airport near you. Closely followed by the rest of the Greek alphabet, no doubt.

It's already in at least 30 countries.

Scotty from Marketing will make sure we get it too.

Yep, no doubt aided and abetted by noisy minorities like this one:

Liberty Victoria comes out swinging about international arrival caps

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The civil liberties and human rights advocacy group isn't happy about last week's National Cabinet decision to slash the number of international arrivals by half.

Perhaps they should take it up with Scotty from Marketing and ask why most (or all?) of the 20,000 overseas arrivals each month were not "stranded Aussies" as we found out last week.

So, since international arrivals are going to be slashed by half does that mean we'll only be getting half the number of businessmen, "celebrities", sports "stars" and other assorted rich and "famous" people from July 14th? Roll Eyes

Stand by for even more private flights arriving in Australia and flying between States. But, not arriving at the major airports in attempts to avoid bad publicity, of course.

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Re: Covid-19 UK Strain more transmissible than Delta
Reply #10 - Jul 6^th, 2021 at 4:37pm

Well, that didn't take long. In fact, it was already here in April.

The Lambda coronavirus variant has arrived in Australia. Here's what we know so far

https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2021-07-06/what-we-know-about-the-lambda-vari...

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We've seen the Alpha, Kappa and Delta variants cross our borders, but it turns out another strain of the virus that causes COVID-19 has reached our shores.

The variant, named Lambda by the World Health Organization (WHO) last month, was detected in an overseas traveller who was in hotel quarantine in New South Wales in April, according to national genomics database AusTrakka.

Some reports suggest the new variant could be fast spreading and difficult to tackle with vaccines.

What happened to all of this *alleged* testing that was supposed to done before anyone boards a flight to Australia nowadays?

Hmm... let's see...

1. Certain people are still not doing their jobs properly (or at all) by not bothering with preflight Covid tests (costs too much).

or...

2. The tests are flawed. Probably a combination of both.

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While there has only been one case of Lambda recorded in hotel quarantine in Australia so far, it's worth keeping an eye on the emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants around the world, Dr Short said.

I'll give it a week... two at the most... before this one also 'escapes' from hotel quarantine. Roll Eyes

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