British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that the new strain of coronavirus identified in Britain could be not only more transmissible but also more deadly.
"It also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant... may be associated with a higher degree of mortality," he said at a Downing Street news conference, according to AFP.
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