New COVID strain makes world anxious: Will India witness another lockdown? India Published: Wednesday, December 23, 2020, 14:54 [IST] New Delhi, Dec 23: Even as the novel coronavirus crisis seemed to be abating, a new mutated strain of the COVID-19 which has been dubbed as a "super-spreader" has been reported from the United Kingdom. This COVID-19 version has nearly 70 per cent transmissibility rate which means the new strain of virus has a higher tendency to infect people. Meanwhile, scientists sid that the faster spreading coronavirus strain is unlikely to make vaccines less effective as of...