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Indian Covid variant under investigation, not yet of concern, says UK PM

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India next week, which has been linked with the addition of India to the travel ban “red list".Addressing a briefing at 10 Downing Street in London, he said the decision to add India to the red list was taken independently by the Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC) on a precautionary basis because the so-called Indian variant of COVID-19 is yet to be classified as a variant of concern.He reiterated that the reason the 103 cases of the variant had been detected quickly in the UK was the result of already fairly stringent measures in place for all international travellers entering the country."The Indian variant is still just a variant under investigation, not a variant of concern," he said, adding that experts are currently looking carefully to.

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