Talk:U.K. strain

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See also: Request for Comment for UK- usage on the talk page of VOC 202012/01

Google reveals 3.3 million results of "UK strain" +coronavirus as of 11 January 2021 (archive url). Some sources from media and health officials, including the British ones, used it as a name, some used it colloquially. It is one of the top four terms in common (colloquial) usage, including U.K. Covid-19 variant, U.K. Coronavirus variant, U.K. variant and U.K. strain (click the above links for a list of source). The consensus on Request for Comment for UK- usage on the talk page of VOC 202012/01 is to include these terms prominently in the article's lede.

• "UK's new COVID-19 strain reported in at least 60 countries: WHO". Al Jazeera. 2021-01-20.

• "Governor Cuomo Announces Three Additional Cases of UK Strain Identified in New York (official press release)". New York Governor's Press Office. 2021-01-09.

• "Covid: Good news for success of vaccine against new UK strain - but what about South Africa?". itv news. 2021-01-08.

• "U.K. strain likely spreading in hard-hit California, officials warn". Politico. 2021-01-05.

• "S Africa COVID variant more infectious than UK strain: Hancock". Al Jazeera. 2021-01-04.

• "Implications of the Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variant VUI 202012/01". US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2020-12-22. The South African variant also has the N501Y mutation and several other mutations but emerged completely independently of the UK strain and is not related to it.