Johnson: no reason to think Covid vaccines won’t work against Brazil variant – video

Boris Johnson has said Public Health England does not believe there is a ‘threat to the wider public’ as authorities seek a person in the UK who has the highly contagious Brazil strain of coronavirus. He also said there was no reason to think the vaccines being administered in the UK would not work against new variants. Scientists say the Brazil variant is more transmissible and may be able to infect people who have previously had Covid-19. So far six cases have been identified in the UK