Britain anxious about spread of Covid strain first found in India: Johnson
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that his country is " anxious " about the coronavirus variant detected in India and the government is "ruling nothing out" to tackle its spread. "We want to make sure that we take all the prudential, all the cautious steps now that we could take," Xinhua news agency quoted Johnson as saying to Sky News on Thursday. "So there are meetings going on today to consider exactly what we need to do," he said. Johnson's remarks came in the wake of spikes of new variants in some areas in Britain. Scientists have raised concerns that the current vaccines may be less effective against the new variants. The consortium of scientists studying new variants in the country, COG-UK, has identified a total of 1,723 cases of the Indian variant known as B1617.2. Although some of these will be duplicates, it is more than triple Public Health England's confirmed figure last week of 520, according to Sky News. R