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By: Shree1news, 21 DEC 2020
The government is alert and there’s no need to panic, Union health minister Harsh Vardhan stated on Monday after a new strain of coronavirus was detected in the UK.
“The government is fully conscious about everything. If you ask me, there is no reason to panic the way we’re seeing in this press conference,” Vardhan stated. “I would say this to all that all these imaginary situations, imaginary talks, imaginary panic… Don’t involve yourself in this,” the minister told reporters while responding to a query on the panic over the new strain and a demand to ban flights from the UK.
He stated that the government had done everything that was vital to deal with the Covid-19 scenario within the last one year.
Earlier within the day, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal urged the central government to ban flights from the UK.
“New mutation of corona virus has emerged in UK, which is a super-spreader. I urge central govt to ban all flights from UK immediately,” tweeted Kejriwal.
The UK announced a surprise lockdown on Saturday in London and parts of the nation amid a surge within the instances of the coronavirus disease after the discovery of a new strain of the Sars-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that Christmas shopping and gatherings in southern England have to be canceled. According to experts, the new strain could be up to 70% more infectious, prompting its European neighbours and several other countries to ban travellers from the nation.
Several European Union nations and Canada have barred travel from the UK and others were contemplating similar motion, in order to block the new strain of coronavirus which has been sweeping across southern England from spreading to the continent.
France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Ireland and Bulgaria all announced restrictions on UK travel.
Source: A-N
