Even as the Indian government as a matter of caution has suspended the international flights coming from the United Kingdom, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has stated that emergence of a new variant mutation of a virus is a prevalent occurrence and not a result in of concern. The Indian government when suspending travel from the United Kingdom stated that the selection was taken in the path of enhanced epidemiological surveillance and containment, the Indian Express reported.
While the threat from the new variant of Coronavirus located in the United Kingdom has not nevertheless been confirmed, nations beginning from European neighbours such as Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands and a lot of other folks have closed travel to and fro from Britain on the basis of caution. Information on the new variant of the Coronavirus traced in the UK is extremely restricted and overall health specialists have also not been capable to attain any conclusion as to why the new strain of the virus has improved transmissibility.
In line with the locating of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the Public Health England(PHE) had also stated on Sunday that it had no proof to say that patients receiving infected with the new variant are suffering from extreme illness or mortality. However, PHE did concede that the new strain is transmitting more conveniently than the earlier strains of Covid-19. The PHE also created it clear that the measures taken to avert infection from the new strain of virus are precisely what persons have been taking to handle the spread of Coronavirus- washing hands, wearing face masks and avoiding close speak to with a single a further.
Only immediately after a detailed evaluation has been completed by the overall health specialists in the coming weeks that the actual extent of the challenge will get clear. Covid-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) which had 1st flagged the emergence of a new strain of Coronavirus that it would take considerable time and efforts to test the effect of the new strain.