Sign up for the latest from M.E.N. political editor Jennifer Williams Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the government has made "the difficult but vital decision to add India to the red list" for international travel.
In a statement to the House of Commons on Monday afternoon, he told MPs: "We’ve recently seen a new variant first identified in India. "We’ve now detected 103 cases of this variant, of which again the vast majority have links to international travel and have been picked up by our testing at the border.” Mr Hancock said the samples have been analysed to see if the new variant has any “concerning characteristics” like greater transmissibility or resistance to treatments and vaccines.
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