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Several countries ban UK passengers in bid to contain new mutation, which is 70 percent more infectious.
Amid fears over the discovery of a new variant of the coronavirus, what do we know so far?
Several countries ban UK passengers in bid to contain new mutation, which is 70 percent more infectious.
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