Even after a mutation from India was placed under investigation by scientists, it still took the Government 22 days to put the country on the red list. Here's a rough timeline of how the India variant - now known as the 'delta' variant - arrived in the UK, including the data that was available at the time. Altogether, scientists found 127 variant cases in passengers from India to England between March 25 and April 24. April 19The UK faces the reckoning over the variant as the number of UK cases rises from 77 to 103. It comes as startling new figures show the number of Indian variant cases in the UK has risen from 202 to 520.

Source: Daily Mirror June 15, 2021 16:41 UTC