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All the Covid variants of concern identified in Scotland so far
10.01.2022 - 19:49 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Omicron continues to spread throughout Scotland - with daily Covid infection numbers remaining in the tens of thousands.
The Scottish Government today recorded 11,827 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, with the number of people currently in hospital requiring treatment after a positive test now more than 1,400.
It has been said that the highly transmissible Omicron accounts for more than 80 per cent of all coronavirus cases in Scotland.
Scientists are continuing to research the potential impacts that the variant could have on Scots and the general health crisis.
Omicron is not the first variant to have caused concern among the global scientific community - there have been a number of others that have come before it.
Here is a list of the all ‘variants of concern’ identified by the World Health Organisation during the pandemic.
The Alpha variant was first detected in the UK in September 2020 and was previously known as the ‘Kent variant’.
Experts say that the strain started to spread in the south east of England before quickly becoming the dominant Covid variant in the UK leading into the cold winter months.
The variant carried what is known as the N501Y mutation, which meant that it could spread quicker around the population.
Discovery of that variant was only made by scientists in December of that year, which mean plans for an extended period of Christmas easing of restrictions had to be torn up by governments across the UK at the end of 2020.
The latest UK Government data, which covers up to May 2021, showed that there were 249,637 confirmed cases of Alpha in the UK.
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