There is no information about it yet. Watch this space for more information.
Yes, although international travel is still prohibited, flights to the UK are operational under the air bubble scheme.
India and the UK were connected by various airlines, including Air India, Vistara, British Airways, and Virgin Atlantic. Flights connecting London to Indian airports such as Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Amritsar were available most days of the week.
Israel, Turkey and Kuwait have also temporarily suspended flights to or from the UK, and Saudi Arabia imposes a travel ban to the UK for a week.
US authorities have not yet stopped traveling from the UK, claiming they are “very carefully” investigating the variant of the virus spreading in Britain, NDTV reported.
Italy saw its first patient infected with the new strain of coronavirus, the Italian Health Ministry reported on Sunday, Reuters reported. No other country apart from the UK has reported cases related to the new strain yet.
England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty said in a statement to CNN: “There is no current evidence to suggest that the new variant causes an increased death rate or affects vaccines and treatments, although urgent work is being done to confirm this. “
However, several experts point out that this variant could be highly mutated in a way that somehow makes it spread more easily without causing more serious disease, amplified by a super-spreader event, CNN reported.
(With input from CNN, BBC, NDTV and Reuters)
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