Written question asked by Daniel Zeichner (Labour) on Wednesday, 11 November 2020, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 16 November 2020. It was answered by Edward Argar (Conservative) on Tuesday, 24 November 2020 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.
Coronavirus: Mink
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what capacity the UK has to detect whether mink-related mutations of coronavirus have arrived in the UK.
- Answer
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The COVID-19 Genomics UK consortium provides routine genomic sequencing of a proportion of United Kingdom cases and is monitoring this dataset for the presence of variants seen in mink in Denmark.
Secondary information
- Type
- Written question
- Reference
- 114215
- Session
- 2019-21
- Subjects
- Mink Coronavirus
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- 2020-11-24 16:04:15 +0000
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