The number of known cases of the Indian variants in England has tripled in a week to 400Hundreds more cases of Indian variants of the virus have been found after two new strains were formally identified by Public Health England. The number of known cases of the variants in England has trebled in a week to 400 after two linked strains not previously counted were included in official tallies. SponsoredPHE said that the vast majority of cases were linked to international travel with no evidence of significant spread in this country. Surge testing for the South African variant in south London also suggested there was no widespread transmission, with an outbreak of dozens of cases in a care home and schools appearing to have been contained. Travel from India has been banned because of spiralling Covid cases in the country and the

Source: The Times April 29, 2021 19:41 UTC