No large-scale spread of B117 coronavirus in Lansingerland: Health Service
The B117 variant of the coronavirus is not spreading in the municipality of Lansingerland on a large scale, municipal health service GGD and Erasmus MC concluded after testing 45 thousand residents of the Zuid-Holland municipality for the strain.
Lansingerland is the first municipality in the Netherlands to undergo large-scale testing. The study was done in this municipality after an outbreak of the B117 coronavirus at a primary school in Berschenhoek.
About 30 people at the school tested positive for this extra contagious strain of the virus, which was first identified int he United Kingdom. But according to GGD Rotterdam-Rijnmond, the outbreak was largely confined to the school. Some 46 people got the B117 coronavirus from that source.
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Lol this whole "British virus" was the basis for the curfew. And it's a nothingburger. Who would've thought 👀?
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