New Covid-19 strain enters China after UK returnee tests positive

Beijing grants conditional nod to homegrown vaccine

China has detected its first imported case of the new coronavirus variant that is spreading rapidly around Britain, according to a publication run by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
 
The variant was detected in a 23-year-old female student returning to China from Britain, who was tested in Shanghai on December 14, according to the latest edition of China CDC Weekly.
 
The case “poses a great potential threat to the prevention and control of Covid-19 in China”, the publication said.
 
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Meanwhile, the drug regulator approved the country’s first coronavirus