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• Nodal officer for Covid-19 said that their samples have been sent to the National Centre for Disease Control for research and they have been sent to a care centre
• In a bid to block the new mutant of Covid-19 from spreading, India has announced that all the flights from the UK will be suspended from Tuesday night

Amid the discovery of a new and more infectious coronavirus strain in the UK, five people out of 266 passengers and crew members of a flight have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in India. The flight arrived at the Delhi airport from London on Monday night, according to reports.

Addressing news office ANI, the Nodal official for Covid-19 said that their examples have been shipped off the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) for exploration and they have been shipped off a considerable place.

In any case, India has not yet recognized the new strain of Covid that has spread to certain pieces of the UK. Virology specialists who have been performing genome sequencing have affirmed saying that they have not gone over this specific strain as of now.

The public authority on Monday declared that it has briefly prohibited departures from the UK to India after the development of another and profoundly irresistible strain of the Covid in Britain.

The suspension of departures from the UK will happen from Tuesday 12 PM and will proceed till 31 December, the public authority added.

All the travelers showing up in India from the UK till Tuesday should get themselves tried.

Taking to Twitter, the Ministry of Civil Aviation stated, “Thinking about the predominant circumstance in the UK, Indian govt has concluded that all flights starting from the UK to India will be briefly suspended till 11:59 pm, 31st December. This suspension to begin w.e.f. 11.59 pm, 22nd December.”

New Covid strain is 70% more contagious

The new Covid-19 strain is dreaded to be more infective and could 70% more contagious, specialists in the UK noted, provoking in excess of 40 countries – including India – to suspend flight tasks.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that the quick-moving new variation of the infection, which is 70% more contagious than existing strains, seemed, by all accounts, to be driving the fast spread of new diseases in London and southern England lately.

Notwithstanding, he focused on the way that “there’s no proof to recommend it is more deadly or causes more extreme sickness,” or that immunizations will be less powerful against it.

Then, countries across the world have closed their fringes to Britain in the midst of fears of an exceptionally irresistible new Covid-19 strain, causing travel confusion and raising the possibility of food deficiencies.

Nations including India, Pakistan, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Jordan, France, Hong Kong, and others have suspended travel for the UK after Johnson said a changed variation of the infection had been recognized in the nation.