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A few hours after the Center and the Tamil Nadu government banned all flights from the UK due to a new coronavirus strain found in the country, a passenger who landed in Chennai from London via Delhi tested positive for COVID-19. “A passenger who came to Chennai from the UK …

There is growing alarm around the world after scientists in the UK described a recently identified variant of the coronavirus which appears to be more contagious than, and genetically distinct, more established variants. The new variant will be called VUI-202012/01, the UK’s first “Variant Under Investigation” in December 2020. Even …