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GENEVA, Switzerland - The new coronavirus variant discovered in Britain could become a pandemic within a pandemic, Switzerland's infection control chief said Tuesday.
"This new variant could behave like a new pandemic within the pandemic," Virginie Masserey, head of the health ministry's infection control department, told journalists in the capital Bern."That's why it is very important to really respect the measures that are recommended, to really reduce the number of infections.
Switzerland, population 8.6 million, has received its first 233,000 vaccine doses and expects to have more than 1.5 million by the end of February.
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