Correct, it's already in mainland Europe and and Portugal now on the green list will not help matters.PaulaT wrote: ↑17 May 2021, 9:16am Anyone who believes the India variant isn't in the EU is living in cloud cuckoo land. With the the exception of Denmark, genomic sequencing over there is pretty low-level so they don't really know what variants are circulating. Even so it's been detected in Germany and Denmark. It'll also be spreading silently at a low level in other EU countries. Given their inadequate vaccination levels and that they're opening up against a background of still quite high covid levels, it's odds on that there'll be another wave over there.
We saw how quickly the Kent/UK variant established itself here. The last figure I saw it represented 76% of all new cases in France.
Vaccination is way behind the excellent figures for the UK but now vaccines are now more available it is rapidly getting better.
You can't keep new variants out but you can take measures to slow their speed of distribution.
Unless a stop on mass travel between countries and until the world has been vaccinated, this and other future variants will spread.
I know this is impossible but something I'd welcome.