British health authorities have identified 43 cases of CCP virus “mutations of concern” in Bristol and Liverpool, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Tuesday. He told Parliament that 11 cases of “mutations of concern” had been identified in Bristol, and 32 cases in Liverpool. In response, the government has expanded its ongoing door-to-door testing programme, initially intended to identify cases of the variant first identified in South Africa, to these two areas, he said in an oral statement. The UK has now identified 105 cases of the South African variant, 11 of which do not appear to have any links to international travel. Those cases are the first in the UK of community transmission of the variant, which is more transmissible and more resistant to antibodies, raising fears that the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines could be reduced. Health authorities have started door-to-door “surge testing” for the variant in eight local …