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India Covid strain could wreck UK's plans to return to normal, professor warns

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The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxA fast spreading new variant of Covid could place the UK's plans to ease lockdown in June in jeopardy, it has been warned.Experts say cases of the "Indian variant" are rising fast across the country with 400 in London alone, with other cases mainly centred around specific communities in the North West.While the new strain is not thought to be any more dangerous than the "Kent" version which is responsible for most cases in the UK, it is believed to spread faster and Microbiologist Professor Paul Hunter told the BBC there could be a “huge number of cases by June".Ministers say they are increasing the number of vaccine jabs being given in.

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