Today, December 21, representatives of the governments of EU countries will hold an emergency meeting devoted to the topic of the mutated coronavirus, discovered in Great Britain.
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The decision to hold an emergency meeting was made because the EU was alarmed by the news about a new strain of the virus. At the same time, the speed with which European governments announced a ban on travel from Great Britain shows the scale of the alarm. The start of the meeting is scheduled for 12:00 Kyiv time. In addition, on December 21, the European Medicines Agency should approve the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, which is already being used in Great Britain and the United States.
Note that the new strain of coronavirus is considered to be approximately 70% more contagious than the usual one.
