Lockdowns would not have stopped new variant of virus from spreading: Study

By Michael Lee

Published January 3, 2021 5:56pm ET

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Lockdowns would not have stopped new variant of virus from spreading: Study — In this Feb. 6, 2020, photo released by the California Department of Public Health, is a demonstration of the equipment and procedures that will be used at the department's Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory lab in Richmond, Calif., to conduct tests for novel coronavirus. This is not an actual test of a novel coronavirus specimen. | (California Department of Public Health via AP)

A new study shows that strict lockdowns would not have worked to stop the new COVID-19 variant from spreading.

“The most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading,” science reporter Pallab Ghosh wrote in a BBC News analysis of the study.

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