Iceland authorities impose new restrictions after detecting 6 cases of UK COVID variant

After six new coronavirus cases of Britain variant were detected in Iceland, authorities imposed new restrictions. As per new restrictions, all schools will remain shut. Gyms, pools, aters, cinemas and bars will also remain shut. Restaurants, shops and hairdressers can remain open in a limited capacity. Garings of more than 10 people have been banned for three weeks. 

Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir said, “We need to hit brake”. He furr ded, “This variant seems to spre faster among children than we have previously experienced”. As per authorities, six people infected with variant have infected around 22 ors before y were diagsed. According to a tally by Johns Hopkins university, Iceland has a total of 6,158 cases with 29 fatalities. 

'Significantly higher' mortality rate

Earlier in March, scientists discovered that more virulent UK strain of coronavirus which was first detected across England and London has a "significantly higher” mortality rate. variant dubbed as B.1.1.7, is “more lethal, and les to more hospitalizations and caselo” as compared to or mutants, based on analysis of data released by New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats visory Group (NERVTAG) on SARS-CoV-2 variant. After several preliminary analyses, it was found that death rate from new SARS-CoV-2strain was 70 percent more lethal, a study published British Medical Journal revealed. 

new study backed UK government’s chief scientific viser, Patrick Vallance’s preliminary analyses that suggested that in every 1000 men d 60 years who were infected with new variant 13 or 14 might be expected to die. Meanwhile, with respect to women, fatalities were10 in 1000 from original variant. Researchers also found that around 8 percent of total deaths occurring did t need hospital mission. “But what we have t been able to detect yet is an increased rate of hospitalization, or once in hospital, an increased rate of dying with this variant versus ar variant, so that’s where uncertainty lies and that’s where work is needed,” John Edmunds, a professor in Centre for Mamatical Modelling of Infectious Diseases at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said.

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