WHO: New Strain of Coronavirus in UK Doesn't Negatively Affect Vaccines    

The World Health Organization (WHO) said today, Monday, that what the United Kingdom (UK) has informed it that the new strain of Coronavirus does not affect the effectiveness of vaccines, saying that it was "good news."

Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the technical team on COVID-19 at WHO, revealed that there is no evidence that the new strain of the virus increases the severity of the disease, and that "there is no indication that the method of transmission of the Coronavirus has changed."

She also confirmed that the situation has not gone out of control yet, but the situation cannot be left as it is.

The news of the spread of a new strain of Coronavirus in the UK has raised global concern about its danger and pace of spread as it causes a sharp rise in cases of "COVID-19" there.

Yesterday, Sunday, WHO pointed out that the new strain of Coronavirus, which was recently discovered in the UK, had spread to three other countries.

Van Kerkhove, who is also an American expert specializing in infectious emergency diseases within the health emergency program and the technical city to confront the Coronavirus pandemic at the United Nations organization, said in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation "BBC", that those countries are Denmark and the Netherlands as well as Australia; they have registered one case of infection with the new strain.

The official warned that the new strain has an increasing ability to faster spread, confirming that studies are underway to reveal the extent of this ability.

The British authorities decided to raise the level of epidemiological alert in the capital, London, and the southeast of England to the highest level, against the background of the emergence of the new strain of Corona, which Health Minister Matt Hancock admitted yesterday that its outbreak became out of control.