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A new variant of the coronavirus spreading rapidly in Britain carries mutations that could mean children are as susceptible to becoming infected with it as adults – unlike previous strains, scientists said on Monday.

Instructions journalists on the most recent discoveries, researchers from the public authority’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) who are following the variation said it had quickly become the prevailing strain in the south of Britain, and could before long do likewise the nation over.

“We presently have high certainty that this variation has a transmission advantage over other infection variations that are right now in the UK,” said Peter Horby, a teacher of arising irresistible sicknesses at Oxford University and seat of NERVTAG.

“There is a clue that it has a higher penchant to taint kids,” said Neil Ferguson, a teacher, and irresistible infection disease transmission specialist at Imperial College London and furthermore an individual from NERVTAG.

“We haven’t set up such a causality on that, however, we can see it in the information,” Ferguson said. “We should assemble more information to perceive how it acts going ahead.”

The rise of the transformed SARS-CoV-2 variation, which researchers state is up to 70% more contagious than past strains in the UK, has incited a few nations to close their outskirts with Britain and drove huge territories of the nation into serious limitations over the Christmas time frame.

Wendy Barclay, another NERVTAG educator and an expert in virology at Imperial, said that among the transformations in the new variation are changes to the manner in which it enters human cells, which may signify “that kids are, maybe, similarly helpless to this infection as grown-ups”.

“Hence, given their blending designs, you would hope to see more kids being tainted,” Barclay said.