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The Health Ministry said in a statement that the six patients were isolated and that their fellow travelers were located.
Direct contacts with infected patients were also quarantined.
India had suspended flights to and from the UK at the end of the year, justifying the decision on the grounds that the new variant was “spreading and growing rapidly”.
India recorded 16,432 cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 10.22 million, which also represents 148,153 deaths.
India is expected to start a vaccination campaign for some 300 million people early next month.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,765,049 deaths derived from more than 80.6 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
