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Stade / Westerstede (dpa / lni) - In Lower Saxony, the corona mutation B.1.1.7 discovered in Great Britain has been detected in other regions.
Nine people in the city and in the district of Göttingen are affected, as the city administration announced on Wednesday.
Two other victims came from neighboring counties or federal states.
Several positively tested people are employed by the Göttingen waste disposal companies - it is not yet foreseeable whether there will be any effects on operations.
The first case in the Stade district relates to the corona outbreak at the aircraft manufacturer Airbus in the Hamburg-Finkenwerder plant, as the district announced on Wednesday.
At the weekend it became known that 21 employees at Airbus had tested positive for the corona virus.
According to the district of Stade, two Airbus employees were infected with the British variant.
According to the Hamburg health authority, B.1.1.7.
proven in seven cases in the Hanseatic city.
The British variant was also discovered in four people in the Ammerland district.
According to the authorities, three of them belong to the employees of a Westerstede company who came from Great Britain and tested positive for Covid-19.
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The first case in Lower Saxony became public at the end of December.
It was a man who died at the Hannover Medical School, whose sample was subsequently examined.
His daughter was probably infected during a stay in England and then infected her parents.
In mid-January, the mutation was detected in a daycare worker from the Hanover region.
Three cases from B.1.1.7.
According to the Lower Saxony Ministry of Health, there was also in January in the Vechta district.
The virus variant B.1.1.7, which has so far mainly appeared in Great Britain, is, according to experts, easier to transmit than the previous one.
It is not yet possible to say with certainty whether it is also more deadly.
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