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COVID-19: India added to coronavirus travel red list over new variant concerns
Health Secretary
COVID variant first identified in
India, which has been deemed a variant under investigation .
The so-called India variant is
known as a double mutant as it has two new significant mutations in the spike protein of the virus that help it infect cells and evade the immune system.
According to figures from the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK), which tracks COVID variants, 182 cases of the India variant have so far been found in the UK up to 16 April.
Of those, 162 cases have been found in the last five weeks.
India placed on UK s travel red list sparking scramble to beat travel deadline
Price of economy flight surges five-fold to £2,000 due to ticket shortages, as families race to avoid hotel quarantine before Friday
19 April 2021 • 6:21pm
India was placed on the UK’s travel “red list” on Monday, sparking a desperate scramble by families to beat the Friday 4am deadline to return and avoid hotel quarantine.
The standard £400 price for an economy flight from India to the UK skyrocketed to £2,000 due to shortages of tickets on nearly fully booked planes, according to travel agents handling the surge in demand.
More than 1,500 people a day are expected to arrive back in the UK before Friday after Matt Hancock announced the red list ban amid concerns over a spike in coronavirus cases in India and emergence of a new double mutant variant.