In the UK there’s evidence that the Indian variant (”.2″) is spreading rapidly in the population, outcompeting the UK variant. It may have reached >50% in some areas, including London probably. This could mess with the indoor reopening plans for next week somewhat, though given that the government mostly seems concerned with keeping hospitals from being overwhelmed, and that’s now easy to achieve with all the vaccinations, it could be that indoor stuff will be allowed despite relatively high and climbing infection levels. (The levels are still very low right now, but if the 0.2 variant is as contagious as it maybe seems, this could change really quickly and lead to massive spikes.)
In the UK there’s evidence that the Indian variant (”.2″) is spreading rapidly in the population, outcompeting the UK variant. It may have reached >50% in some areas, including London probably. This could mess with the indoor reopening plans for next week somewhat, though given that the government mostly seems concerned with keeping hospitals from being overwhelmed, and that’s now easy to achieve with all the vaccinations, it could be that indoor stuff will be allowed despite relatively high and climbing infection levels. (The levels are still very low right now, but if the 0.2 variant is as contagious as it maybe seems, this could change really quickly and lead to massive spikes.)