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No sign S.Africa's COVID-19 variant more contagious than UK version - WHO

FILE PHOTO: WHO Technical lead head COVID-19 Maria Van Kerkhove attends a news conference organized by Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU) at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland July 3, 2020. Fabrice Coffrini/Pool via REUTERS

There is no indication that the coronavirus variant identified in South Africa is more transmissible than the one spreading fast in Britain, the World Health Organization's technical chief on COVID-19, Maria Van Kerkhove, said on Tuesday.

(Reporting by Michael Shields, Emma Farge and John Revill; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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