ericsson16
One very simple reason. The UK is the world leader in human genome sequence technology, with around 45% of the world's human sequence genomics capability located within the UK. That's whey we have found the new protein spike sequencing changes in the COVID variant now prevalent in the South East of England, even though it is likely to exist in other regions of the world, where it remains undetected and where spikes in infection therefore go unexplained.
We should all be enormously proud of our biotech and life sciences industries in the UK.