New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group Note of meeting Date & Location of meeting: 11:00 –13.00 18December2020 -Via telecon only In attendance: Chair: Peter Horby (PH) NERVTAG Members: Peter Openshaw (PO), Andrew Hayward (AH),Wei Shen Lim (WSL),Julian Hiscox (JHi),John Edmunds (JE), Neil Ferguson (NF), Robert Dingwall (RD),Muge Cevik (MCe), Wendy Barclay (WB), Jim McMenamin […]
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New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group Note of meeting Date & Location: 12:00 –13.30 21 December 2020 -Via telecon only In attendance: Chair: Peter Horby (PH) NERVTAG Members: Andrew Hayward (AH), Julian Hiscox (JHi), John Edmunds (JE), Neil Ferguson (NF), Wendy Barclay (WB),Wei Shen Lim (WSL), Cariad Evans (CE) SPI-M: Angela McLean (AM), Graham […]
New strain of COVID-19 reported to World Health Organization. Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, said: “As announced on Monday, the UK has identified a new variant of COVID-19 through Public Health England’s genomic surveillance.” “As a result of the rapid spread of the new variant, preliminary modelling data and rapidly rising […]
Two cases of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant, which originated in South Africa, have been identified in the UK. The 2 cases were identified in the UK on 22 December 2020 and both have been in contact with someone who has travelled from South Africa. Public Health England’s Health Protection Teams have followed up with both […]
Public Health England (PHE) has confirmed that lateral flow devices (LFDs) used in mass testing can detect the new COVID-19 variant. Scientists at PHE’s Porton Down laboratory have carried out a rapid evaluation using clinical and laboratory grown samples containing the VUI 202012/01 variant to test whether it can be detected by lateral flow devices (LFDs) currently in […]
A new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) has been identified across the South East of England. The variant was identified due to Public Health England’s (PHE) proactive and enhanced monitoring following the increase in cases seen in Kent and London. The variant has been named ‘VUI – 202012/01’ (the first Variant Under Investigation […]
New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group NERVTAG was asked to undertake an evidence review to consider whether chest compressions and defibrillation are associated with an increased risk of transmission of acute respiratory infections. Furthermore, it was asked to give an opinion on whether chest compressions and defibrillation should be considered to be aerosol […]
Published 23 December 2020 Detection of an epidemiological cluster associated with a new variant of concern 1. Working with academic collaborators at the University of Oxford, PHE Porton Down has been evaluating the performance of lateral flow devices (LFDs) since mid-August 2020. Over 60 have been considered to date, approximately 30% of which have progressed to extended evaluation […]
Variant of Concern 202012/01 Detection of an epidemiological cluster associated with a new variant of concern Analysis of routinely available genomic data in Kent, England was undertaken as part of an epidemiological investigation to investigate increasing incidence on 8 December 2020. Although only 4% (255/6130) of Kent cases had available genomes through COG-UK sequencing, a […]
Technical briefing 11 13 May 2021 This briefing provides an update on previous briefings up to 7 May 2021 Summary There are 5 variants of concern and 7 variants under investigation (Table 1). This report has been published to continue to share detailed surveillance of VOC-21APR02 (B.1.617.2). A separate report is published covering our routine […]
