Why is the new UK Covid-19 strain more infectious?
The BBC's Andrew Marr spoke to Professor Peter Horby, from the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), to find out why the new Covid-19 variant is up to 70% more transmissible.
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