Reading this morning concerning reports about B1617.2 in new areas
Daily Express - surging/swathes of infection
Metro - surging
Telegraph - hotspots
My borough - Oadby & Wigston, Leicestershire is apparently a new hotspot with surging cases of B1717.2 representing 75% of cases.
What! I thought we have been doing so well recently after a rough 14 months alongside Leicester.
Digging deeper I’ve now decided (for the moment, here at least) this is very positive news for such a virulent strain!
The sequencing reports are up to the 8th May and considering the length of time from sample to sequence testing I would think these would be from tests carried out around the end of April.
Screenshot shows current cases, ranked at 124 - it’s not exactly ripping through here in the last 19 days!
If I had the time it would be interesting to extrapolate the information for the other ‘new hotspots’ to see if there is any surge in overall reported cases