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UK AREAS WITH INDIA COVID VARIANT OUTBREAKS COULD BE ADVISED TO LIMIT
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London and Bolton have seen outbreaks of the highly infectious coronavirus
variant, with the number of cases in the UK rising above 500 following a large
jump, officials said today
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People living in areas where the Indian Covid variant is spreading could be
advised to limit their socialising, a healthcare chief warned today.
Earlier on Friday the mutant strain was confirmed as a "variant of concern" amid
fears it could be more transmissible than the Kent variant, which fuelled
England's second wave and forced the country back into lockdown in December.
London and Bolton have seen significant outbreaks, Public Health England said
today.
Latest figures show cases of the variant in the UK have increased to 520 from
202 over the last week, and almost half of these cases are related to travel or
contact with a traveller.
But experts say there is currently "insufficient evidence" suggesting that the
variant can make vaccines less effective.
Dr Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency, said
communities where the variant was spreading would be advised to take extra
precautions - beyond what might be permitted nationally.
Dr Jenny Harries said people in areas with significant outbreaks would be
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"Yes, we should be concerned," Dr Harries said, when asked about the Indian
variant, which she said had been "rising quite sharply in the last week or two".
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"We really do want people to be extra cautious. We are taking a whole host of
steps to ensure that in areas where we have seen that (rising cases), we have
enhanced contact tracing, we are going in with messaging, working with local
communities, with directors of public health to ensure that people are really
aware of the potential risks.
"We are encouraging people to continue working from home... socialise outdoors
even if the situation and the rules change - it is really important people
continue to do that.
"This is likely to be a bit of a pattern as we go forward, so we need the public
to do everything that they have been doing in sticking to the rules, but in
those particular areas to be particularly careful."
The number of confirmed cases of the Indian variant has risen above 500 in the
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The cases are spread across the country, with the majority in two areas - the
North West, mainly in Bolton, and London, PHE said.
The decision to reclassify the variant is based on evidence which suggests it is
at least as transmissible as a strain known as the Kent variant, PHE said.
Mr Shapps said he did not envisage having to "go back to those bad old days" of
when a regionalised system of coronavirus restrictions was required to control
high infection rates in certain parts of England.
Half of known cases have been linked to international travel, health officials
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Asked whether future localised outbreaks could see people from some regions
banned from travelling, the Transport Secretary told a press conference: "As we
come out of this lockdown, we've got this four-stage road map and, as you will
have noted, we haven't gone back into a tiered situation.
"That's possible actually because, overall, our levels are so much lower and
where they are low overall, where prevalence is low, you are able to take a much
more national approach to all of this.
"I very much hope that we are not going back to those bad old days of very high
levels of enormous prevalence and the rest of it, because we've got the one
thing we didn't have when we got down to these very low levels last time around,
and that is of course the vaccine.
"We are much better positioned this year with vaccines, with testing, with
genomic sequencing, to not need to take that localised approach and so far, so
good."
Earlier today Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned: "I think we've got to be very
careful about that.
"We're doing a huge amount, obviously, to make sure that where we do find
outbreaks of the Indian variant that we do surge testing, that we do
door-to-door testing and isolate it.
"And also have very tough controls on transport and on people coming in."
He later added on a visit to Hartlepool after the Tories' election victory
there: "We have to bear in mind that Covid isn't over."
But he said he could not see a reason why any of the steps of the roadmap should
be delayed.
Asked if the Indian variant could scupper the lifting of restrictions, he said:
"I don't see that, we don't have that evidence at the moment, no."
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And yet there are people in India who are asking what is going on with the
western MSM. Any death is a tragedy, but things need to be put into
prospective given that India has a population of 1.3 billion.
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Not closing borders for a year cost us dearly. Just when it was coming good
we announce the closure of flights from India, but leave a week for everyone
to fly in first.
500 infections means many times that already and we now have a variant
possibly not covered by the huge effort of the vaccine program.
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we will start seeing another surge in late May/early June, that will be
predominantly the Indian [B.1.617.2] variant.
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This is a totally predictable outcome after allowing people time to get home
after red-listing the country. Other countries have shut their borders and
left their citizens stranded, even if they are sports celebraties. They
don't have the problems with Covid 19 that we do.
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Spot On. Worse I read that India, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc. are going to
green listed countries, staying there 10 days and THEN coming to the UK
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There's absolutely no point in " advising " people to maintain social
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