Covid UK: 3,424 cases of Indian variant found as cases double in a week

Just three of the 15 Indian variant hotspots in the UK are seeing rising infection rates, surge testing data has revealed.  Almost 3,500 cases of the Indian Covid variant have now been spotted across the UK, with the number of people testing positive for the strain having more than doubled in a week. But the … Read more

Covid UK: 3,424 cases of Indian variant found as cases double in a week

Just three of the 15 Indian variant hotspots in the UK are seeing rising infection rates, surge testing data has revealed.  Almost 3,500 cases of the Indian Covid variant have now been spotted across the UK, with the number of people testing positive for the strain having more than doubled in a week. But the … Read more

Home Office WILL still deport two over-staying Indian migrants

The Home Office will still deport two over-staying Indian migrants despite them being released from a Home Office van in Glasgow during a protest last week. Lakhvir Singh, 34, and his friend  Sumit Sehdevi – both Sikhs originally from India -were arrested on suspicion of immigration offences in Edinburgh, having lived in the UK without leave to … Read more

Test and Trace error fuelled Indian variant’s spread in hotspot Blackburn

Failures in the Government’s Test and Trace programme helped fuel the spread of the Indian Covid variant in Blackburn with Darwen, a report has claimed.  The centralised system failed to notify contact tracers in the Lancashire authority of 164 positive cases in late April and early May.   At that point the mutant B.1.617.2 strain was just … Read more

Test and Trace error fuelled Indian variant’s spread in hotspot Blackburn

Failures in the Government’s Test and Trace programme helped fuel the spread of the Indian Covid variant in Blackburn with Darwen, a report has claimed.  The centralised system failed to notify contact tracers in the Lancashire authority of 164 positive cases in late April and early May.   At that point the mutant B.1.617.2 strain was just … Read more

Indian professor, 38, dies from coronavirus as death toll sees another 3,874 fatalities

An Indian professor has died of Covid-19 soon after taking to social media to beg for an ICU bed, as the death toll has climbed with another 3,874 fatalities in 24 hours. Nabila Sadiq, a professor at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University, died on Monday night after taking to Twitter on May 4 to beg … Read more