PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Coronavirus: Epidemiology (14 April 2022)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to identify new covid-19 variants at borders.
Asked by:
Feryal Clark (Labour)
Asked by:
Feryal Clark (Labour)
Answer
The UK Health Security Agency continues to undertake regular monitoring of United Kingdom and international genomic data to detect and characterise new variants. If a new variant is detected by surveillance systems, a risk assessment will be conducted to establish its severity, which will inform the level of response.
Answered by:
Maggie Throup (Conservative)
26 April 2022
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