A Covid variant that has become known as “kraken” may spread almost 40 per cent faster than Britain’s currently dominant strain and could take over as the country’s most common form of the virus, health officials have said. A technical briefing released by the UK Health Security Agency on Wednesday revealed that “kraken” has a weekly growth advantage of 38.9 …
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British health chiefs have been reprimanded for publishing 'potentially misleading' data which anti-vaxxers have jumped on to peddle claims that jabs don't work. The UK's statistics watchdog says the UK Health Security Agency needs to do better at explaining its data after anti-vaxxers claimed a report by the body showing there were more Covid cases among vaccinated people than the …
