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Radio Merseyside's Tony Snell spoke to LSTM’s Dr Nick Beeching, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Infectious Disease, on Radio Merseyside on the 22nd December.
Nick addressed the news of a new variant of the virus causing COVID-19 and the rise in cases in our region.