PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Coronavirus (2 February 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what date his Department first became aware that a case of the South African variant of covid-19 had been identified in London W7, as confirmed by his Department on 1 February 2021.

Asked by:
James Murray (Labour)

Public Health England discovered a cluster linked to this variant in early December. The Department was notified on 11 December.

Answered by:
Ms Nadine Dorries (Conservative)
10 February 2021