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Hancock: Increasing confidence jab works against variant

Matt Hancock says that there is “increasing confidence” that Covid vaccines work against the Indian coronavirus variant. The health secretary also dismisses criticisms that the government didn’t apply travel restrictions early enough to India, saying the country was added to the red list before the variant was under investigation.