Coronavirus latest news – Raging Indian variant ‘will force UK into more lockdown hell unless second vaccines speed up’

BRITAIN will be forced into yet more lockdowns unless we increase the speed of people getting their second vaccination, experts have warned.

While the UK has done a brilliant job of getting first jabs out to tens of millions of Brits, the terrifying Indian variant is continuing to pick up pace as it spreads across the country and becomes the dominant strain.

It is believed to be both more transmissible than the variant first detected in Kent, which previously dominated, and somewhat more resistant to Covid vaccines, particularly after one dose.

Scientists now fear that unless the UK speeds up its vaccination programme to get Brits their second dose, the strain will run riot among people who’ve only had a single jab – increasing hospitalisations and deaths.

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