Covid-19: what do we know about the variants first detected in India? – podcast
by Presented and produced by Anand Jagatia with Nicol from on (#5HS34)
With restrictions in England due to be further relaxed on 17 May, new coronavirus variants first detected in India are spreading across the UK. Public Health England designated one, known as B.1.617.2, as a variant of concern' last week. It is now the second most common variant in the country. Anand Jagatia speaks to the Guardian science correspondent Nicola Davis and Prof Ravi Gupta about what we know and how concerned we should be